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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... limited space within which it had to be com- pressed , confined to a statement of the fundamental principles of the science , prefaced by a short sketch of its history , and admitted of but few illustrations of the practical working of ...
... limited space within which it had to be com- pressed , confined to a statement of the fundamental principles of the science , prefaced by a short sketch of its history , and admitted of but few illustrations of the practical working of ...
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... limited . quantities , and requires a great deal of labour for its production , it has a comparatively high exchangeable value , and may be exchanged or bartered for a pro- portionally large quantity of most other commodities . Those ...
... limited . quantities , and requires a great deal of labour for its production , it has a comparatively high exchangeable value , and may be exchanged or bartered for a pro- portionally large quantity of most other commodities . Those ...
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... limited , and was maintained rather by marauding incursions and piratical expeditions in search of plunder , than by a commerce founded on the gratification of real and reciprocal wants . These circumstances sufficiently account for the ...
... limited , and was maintained rather by marauding incursions and piratical expeditions in search of plunder , than by a commerce founded on the gratification of real and reciprocal wants . These circumstances sufficiently account for the ...
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... limited range of observation , in opposition to those that have been sanctioned by the general experience of mankind . But although we are not to reject a received prin- ciple because of the apparent opposition of a few results , with ...
... limited range of observation , in opposition to those that have been sanctioned by the general experience of mankind . But although we are not to reject a received prin- ciple because of the apparent opposition of a few results , with ...
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... limited and scanty experience on which to build their con- clusions . Nor did they even avail themselves of the few historical facts with which they might easily have become acquainted ; but , for the most part , con- fined their ...
... limited and scanty experience on which to build their con- clusions . Nor did they even avail themselves of the few historical facts with which they might easily have become acquainted ; but , for the most part , con- fined their ...
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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.