The Principles of Political Economy: With Some Inquiries Respecting Their Application and a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the ScienceA. and C. Black, 1849 - 646 páginas |
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... increase of national wealth and security , either wholly to prohibit , or to lay a high duty on its exportation ; and so in other instances . The recent history of the theory of population affords a striking instance of the abuse of ...
... increase of national wealth and security , either wholly to prohibit , or to lay a high duty on its exportation ; and so in other instances . The recent history of the theory of population affords a striking instance of the abuse of ...
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... increase Wealth - Restrictions on Commerce , for the Promotion of Domestic Industry and National Secu- rity - Influence of these Restrictions - Duties on Imports , CHAPTER VI . Different Employments of Capital and Labour - Agriculture ...
... increase Wealth - Restrictions on Commerce , for the Promotion of Domestic Industry and National Secu- rity - Influence of these Restrictions - Duties on Imports , CHAPTER VI . Different Employments of Capital and Labour - Agriculture ...
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... increase implanted in the human race is so very powerful , that population never fails of speedily expanding to the limits of subsistence , how much soever they may be extended . Indeed , its natural tendency is to exceed these limits ...
... increase implanted in the human race is so very powerful , that population never fails of speedily expanding to the limits of subsistence , how much soever they may be extended . Indeed , its natural tendency is to exceed these limits ...
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... increase their wealth than all their other institutions put together . But , the truth is , that differences of fortune are as consonant to the nature of things , and are as really a part of the order of Providence , as differences of ...
... increase their wealth than all their other institutions put together . But , the truth is , that differences of fortune are as consonant to the nature of things , and are as really a part of the order of Providence , as differences of ...
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... increase of wealth . But these distinc- tions seem to be for the most part imaginary . Portions of stock employed without any immediate view to production , are often by far the most productive . Consistently with Smith's definition ...
... increase of wealth . But these distinc- tions seem to be for the most part imaginary . Portions of stock employed without any immediate view to production , are often by far the most productive . Consistently with Smith's definition ...
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Página 411 - By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without.
Página 229 - It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men, quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too fast.
Página 583 - There is one sort of labour," says he, " which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed ; there is another which has no such effect. The former, as it produces a value, may be called productive ; the latter, unproductive labour.
Página 231 - The germs of existence contained in this earth, if they could freely develop themselves, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years. Necessity, that imperious, all-pervading law of nature, restrains them within the prescribed bounds.
Página 198 - Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for ; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what 'comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs. He supplies them abundantly with what they have occasion for, and they accommodate him as amply with what he has occasion for, and a general plenty diffuses itself through...
Página 431 - The liberal reward of labour," says Dr Smith, " as it encourages the propagation, so it increases the industry of the common people. The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives.