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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... true , it is at the same time quite as true that agricultural skill never remains the same for the smallest portion of time ; and that its improve- ment may countervail , for any given period , the decreasing fertility of the soils to ...
... true , it is at the same time quite as true that agricultural skill never remains the same for the smallest portion of time ; and that its improve- ment may countervail , for any given period , the decreasing fertility of the soils to ...
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... true ; and being so , every proposal for a restriction on commerce may be fairly presumed to be inexpedient till the reverse be established . There can , however , be no manner of doubt that there are cases , though but few in num- ber ...
... true ; and being so , every proposal for a restriction on commerce may be fairly presumed to be inexpedient till the reverse be established . There can , however , be no manner of doubt that there are cases , though but few in num- ber ...
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... perperam positum aut consti- tutum sit , have yet , in great measure , to be ascer- tained . However humiliating the confession , it is certainly true that , owing to the want of information PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION . XV.
... perperam positum aut consti- tutum sit , have yet , in great measure , to be ascer- tained . However humiliating the confession , it is certainly true that , owing to the want of information PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION . XV.
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... true that , owing to the want of information , not a few of the most interesting problems in econo- mical legislation are at present all but insoluble and it must be left to the economists of future ages , who will , no doubt , be able ...
... true that , owing to the want of information , not a few of the most interesting problems in econo- mical legislation are at present all but insoluble and it must be left to the economists of future ages , who will , no doubt , be able ...
Página xvii
... true deliverance . " But we have done our best to avoid error ; and while we have not hesitated to speak with the utmost freedom of the institutions , systems , and opinions we have had to review , we are not conscious of having , in ...
... true deliverance . " But we have done our best to avoid error ; and while we have not hesitated to speak with the utmost freedom of the institutions , systems , and opinions we have had to review , we are not conscious of having , in ...
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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.