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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... influence which its principles , if acted upon , would most likely exert over some of the more important departments of national economy . Other engagements , while they prevented the publication of a new edition of this work , which ...
... influence which its principles , if acted upon , would most likely exert over some of the more important departments of national economy . Other engagements , while they prevented the publication of a new edition of this work , which ...
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... influence of the security of property , the division and combination of employ- ments , and the freedom of industry over its produc- tion . If he stopped at this point , he would have done little more than announce a few barren ...
... influence of the security of property , the division and combination of employ- ments , and the freedom of industry over its produc- tion . If he stopped at this point , he would have done little more than announce a few barren ...
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... influence of taxes and loans over the wealth and wellbeing of the public , come within the scope of this science , and form , indeed , one of its most attractive departments . But , owing to their extent and difficulty , we have been ...
... influence of taxes and loans over the wealth and wellbeing of the public , come within the scope of this science , and form , indeed , one of its most attractive departments . But , owing to their extent and difficulty , we have been ...
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... influence of the antagonist principles by which they are partly or wholly countervailed . The principle of increase , as explained by Mr Malthus , ' and more recently by Dr Chalmers , appeared to form an insuperable obstacle to all ...
... influence of the antagonist principles by which they are partly or wholly countervailed . The principle of increase , as explained by Mr Malthus , ' and more recently by Dr Chalmers , appeared to form an insuperable obstacle to all ...
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... influence . Food is indispensable to existence ; and it may , therefore , be laid down as a general principle , that ... influences , that not one individual out of 10,000 dies of want ; and such being the case , a theory which should ...
... influence . Food is indispensable to existence ; and it may , therefore , be laid down as a general principle , that ... influences , that not one individual out of 10,000 dies of want ; and such being the case , a theory which should ...
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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.