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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... operation of the principles of the science , and to show how they are liable to be influenced by the action of secondary and contingent circumstances . Numerous additions have been made to the chapter which treats of the cir- cumstances ...
... operation of the principles of the science , and to show how they are liable to be influenced by the action of secondary and contingent circumstances . Numerous additions have been made to the chapter which treats of the cir- cumstances ...
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... operation and real influence . Every one admits , for example , that security of property , at least to some extent , is indispensable to the produc- tion of wealth ; but security is not to be confined to the mere freedom to dispose at ...
... operation and real influence . Every one admits , for example , that security of property , at least to some extent , is indispensable to the produc- tion of wealth ; but security is not to be confined to the mere freedom to dispose at ...
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... Operation of the English Poor Laws- New Poor Law , Page 396 445 CHAPTER IV . Education of the Poor - Importance of a National System of Education - Difficulties in the way of its Establishment- Influence of Friendly Societies and ...
... Operation of the English Poor Laws- New Poor Law , Page 396 445 CHAPTER IV . Education of the Poor - Importance of a National System of Education - Difficulties in the way of its Establishment- Influence of Friendly Societies and ...
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... operation of taxes and loans , all depend on principles which it belongs to this science to ascertain and elucidate . — Neither is wealth necessary only because it affords the means of subsistence : without it we should never be able to ...
... operation of taxes and loans , all depend on principles which it belongs to this science to ascertain and elucidate . — Neither is wealth necessary only because it affords the means of subsistence : without it we should never be able to ...
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... operation may , like that of the mechanical principles , be traced by the aid of obser- vation and analysis . There is , however , a material distinction between the physical and the moral and political sciences 14 EVIDENCE ON WHICH.
... operation may , like that of the mechanical principles , be traced by the aid of obser- vation and analysis . There is , however , a material distinction between the physical and the moral and political sciences 14 EVIDENCE ON WHICH.
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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.