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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... tion . If he stopped at this point , he would have done little more than announce a few barren generalities , of no real utility . It is not enough to point out the general rule or principle to be appealed to on any given occasion ; the ...
... tion . If he stopped at this point , he would have done little more than announce a few barren generalities , of no real utility . It is not enough to point out the general rule or principle to be appealed to on any given occasion ; the ...
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... tion of any novel system of measures ; but it is ex- tremely difficult , or rather , perhaps , impossible , with- out an extensive analogous experience , to foretell its remoter consequences ; because we must , in the ab- sence of such ...
... tion of any novel system of measures ; but it is ex- tremely difficult , or rather , perhaps , impossible , with- out an extensive analogous experience , to foretell its remoter consequences ; because we must , in the ab- sence of such ...
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... TION I. MARKET OR ACTUAL WAGES - Depend on the Pro- portion between Capital and Population - Identity of the interests of the Capitalists with those of the Labourers . SEC- TION II . NATURAL OR NECESSARY WAGES - Depend on the Species ...
... TION I. MARKET OR ACTUAL WAGES - Depend on the Pro- portion between Capital and Population - Identity of the interests of the Capitalists with those of the Labourers . SEC- TION II . NATURAL OR NECESSARY WAGES - Depend on the Species ...
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... TION IV . DIFFERENCE IN THEIR INFLUENCE OVER WAGES BETWEEN A DEMAND FOR LABOUR , AND A DEMAND FOR THE PRODUCTS OF Labour , . CHAPTER III . Impotent Poor should be provided for by a Poor's Rate - Ques- tions as to the best means of ...
... TION IV . DIFFERENCE IN THEIR INFLUENCE OVER WAGES BETWEEN A DEMAND FOR LABOUR , AND A DEMAND FOR THE PRODUCTS OF Labour , . CHAPTER III . Impotent Poor should be provided for by a Poor's Rate - Ques- tions as to the best means of ...
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... tion - Test of advantageous and disadvantageous Consump- tion - Sumptuary Laws - Advantage of a Taste for Luxuries -Error of Dr Smith's Opinion with respect to unproductive Consumption - Error of those who contend , that to facilitate ...
... tion - Test of advantageous and disadvantageous Consump- tion - Sumptuary Laws - Advantage of a Taste for Luxuries -Error of Dr Smith's Opinion with respect to unproductive Consumption - Error of those who contend , that to facilitate ...
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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.