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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... land will , speaking generally , yield a less return . But though this proposition be un- doubtedly true , it is at ... lands now under tillage in England , yield more produce per acre , and more as compared with the outlay , than the ...
... land will , speaking generally , yield a less return . But though this proposition be un- doubtedly true , it is at ... lands now under tillage in England , yield more produce per acre , and more as compared with the outlay , than the ...
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... commonly describes it to be " the annual produce of land and labour . " Mr. Malthus , however , has justly objected 1 " Principles of Political Economy , " p . 28 . to this definition , that it refers to the sources DEFINITION . 5.
... commonly describes it to be " the annual produce of land and labour . " Mr. Malthus , however , has justly objected 1 " Principles of Political Economy , " p . 28 . to this definition , that it refers to the sources DEFINITION . 5.
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... first , or productive class , by whose agency all wealth is produced , consists of the farmers and labourers engaged in agriculture , who subsist on a portion of the produce of the land reserved to SYSTEM OF M. QUESNAY . 45.
... first , or productive class , by whose agency all wealth is produced , consists of the farmers and labourers engaged in agriculture , who subsist on a portion of the produce of the land reserved to SYSTEM OF M. QUESNAY . 45.
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... land reserved to them- selves as the wages of their labour , and as a reason- able profit on their capital : the second , or proprietary class , consists of those who live on the rent of the land , or on the nett surplus produce raised ...
... land reserved to them- selves as the wages of their labour , and as a reason- able profit on their capital : the second , or proprietary class , consists of those who live on the rent of the land , or on the nett surplus produce raised ...
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... land ; and it is only after recourse has been had to poorer soils , and when , consequently , the productive powers of the labour and capital em- ployed in cultivation begin to diminish , that rent begins to appear : so that , instead ...
... land ; and it is only after recourse has been had to poorer soils , and when , consequently , the productive powers of the labour and capital em- ployed in cultivation begin to diminish , that rent begins to appear : so that , instead ...
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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.