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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... thing like a true knowledge of the laws regulating the production , accumulation , distribution , and consumption of wealth , if he do not draw his materials from a very wide sur- face . He should study man in every different situa ...
... thing like a true knowledge of the laws regulating the production , accumulation , distribution , and consumption of wealth , if he do not draw his materials from a very wide sur- face . He should study man in every different situa ...
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... thing , and to fix our attention exclusively on the balance of £ 200,000 of gold and silver ! This is much the same as if we were to estimate the com- fort and utility of clothes , by the number and glare of the metal buttons by which ...
... thing , and to fix our attention exclusively on the balance of £ 200,000 of gold and silver ! This is much the same as if we were to estimate the com- fort and utility of clothes , by the number and glare of the metal buttons by which ...
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... thing which either ministers to our wants or desires , must be originally derived from the earth , Quesnay assumed as a self - evident truth , and as the basis of his system , that the earth is the only source of wealth ; and held that ...
... thing which either ministers to our wants or desires , must be originally derived from the earth , Quesnay assumed as a self - evident truth , and as the basis of his system , that the earth is the only source of wealth ; and held that ...
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... thing limited by nature to those commodities which ( from the two breasts of our common mother ) land and sea , God usually either freely giveth , or for labour selleth to mankind . " For the matter of this nutriment , consisting in ...
... thing limited by nature to those commodities which ( from the two breasts of our common mother ) land and sea , God usually either freely giveth , or for labour selleth to mankind . " For the matter of this nutriment , consisting in ...
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... things as they come to our use , and cast up the several expenses about them , what in them is purely owing to nature ... thing , than several nations of the Americans are of this , who are rich in laud , and poor in all the comforts of ...
... things as they come to our use , and cast up the several expenses about them , what in them is purely owing to nature ... thing , than several nations of the Americans are of this , who are rich in laud , and poor in all the comforts of ...
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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.