Political Economy: An Inquiry Into the Natural Grounds of Right to Vendible Property, Or WealthThe author, 1829 - 398 páginas |
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... already extant , has been shown . Embarrassed as the science is with difficulties on which opinion is divided , it is of the utmost importance for its further progress , not only to ex- plain and establish correct principles , but to ...
... already extant , has been shown . Embarrassed as the science is with difficulties on which opinion is divided , it is of the utmost importance for its further progress , not only to ex- plain and establish correct principles , but to ...
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... already hinted , point more or less obviously and unequivocally to this object . But it was not then necessary to extend the view so far , or perhaps even possible to treat the subject with advantage , in the manner here proposed ...
... already hinted , point more or less obviously and unequivocally to this object . But it was not then necessary to extend the view so far , or perhaps even possible to treat the subject with advantage , in the manner here proposed ...
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... already alluded to as forming the first grand object of law and government . Before concluding the chapter , it will be proper to ad- vert , though but shortly in this place , to the subject of value , * and to consider the two ...
... already alluded to as forming the first grand object of law and government . Before concluding the chapter , it will be proper to ad- vert , though but shortly in this place , to the subject of value , * and to consider the two ...
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... already in exist- ence ; in the second , such consumption is not followed by any return of equivalent goods ; and as in both cases wealth or vendible commodities are equally consumed , viz . the sub- sistence of the labourer , or non ...
... already in exist- ence ; in the second , such consumption is not followed by any return of equivalent goods ; and as in both cases wealth or vendible commodities are equally consumed , viz . the sub- sistence of the labourer , or non ...
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... already noticed ( pp . 26 , 27 , ) that among those items of wealth which belong generally to the class of pro- ductive , there are some which may , to a limited extent , be applied to unproductive purposes ; -as a canal and a steam ...
... already noticed ( pp . 26 , 27 , ) that among those items of wealth which belong generally to the class of pro- ductive , there are some which may , to a limited extent , be applied to unproductive purposes ; -as a canal and a steam ...
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Página 156 - 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 77 - But if they had all wrought separately and independently and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day...
Página 23 - THERE IS ONE SORT of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed: there is another which has no such effect.
Página 203 - Equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal value to the labourer. In his ordinary state of health, strength and spirits; in the ordinary degree of his skill and dexterity, he must always lay down the same portion of his ease, his liberty, and his happiness.
Página 11 - ... value in exchange ; and on the contrary, those which have the greatest value in exchange have frequently little or no value in use. Nothing is more useful than water: but it will purchase scarce anything; scarce anything can be had in exchange for it.
Página 315 - THE whole of the advantages and disadvantages of the different employments of labour and stock must, in the same neighbourhood, be either perfectly equal or continually tending to equality.
Página 10 - the word Value has two different meanings, and sometimes expresses the utility of some particular object, and sometimes the power of purchasing other goods which the possession of that object conveys. The one may be called value in use; the other value in exchange.
Página 235 - The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating. Different accidents may sometimes keep them suspended a good deal above it, and sometimes force them down even somewhat below it. But whatever may be the obstacles which hinder them from settling in this center of repose and continuance, they are constantly tending towards it.
Página 76 - ... make twenty. But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades.
Página 74 - Secondly, the advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly lost in passing from one sort of work to another, is much greater than we should at first view be apt to imagine it. It is impossible to pass very quickly from one kind of work to another; that is carried on in a different place, and with quite different tools.