A Treatise on the Circumstances which Determine the Rate of Wages and the Condition of the Labouring Classes: Including an Inquiry Into the Influence of Combinations |
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... on them for recruits ; their expendi- ture furnishes the largest portion of the public revenue ; and their industry and ingenuity supply most part of the conve- niences and enjoyments which raise civilized man above the savage .
... on them for recruits ; their expendi- ture furnishes the largest portion of the public revenue ; and their industry and ingenuity supply most part of the conve- niences and enjoyments which raise civilized man above the savage .
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Wages being most commonly paid and estimated in money , it may perhaps be thought that their amount will , in conse- quence , depend more on the supply of money in circulation , than on the magnitude of capital .
Wages being most commonly paid and estimated in money , it may perhaps be thought that their amount will , in conse- quence , depend more on the supply of money in circulation , than on the magnitude of capital .
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in the supplies of food , clothes , and such like articles , their price would equally rise , and the condition of the labourers be precisely the same as before . They would carry twice the number of sovereigns and shillings to market ...
in the supplies of food , clothes , and such like articles , their price would equally rise , and the condition of the labourers be precisely the same as before . They would carry twice the number of sovereigns and shillings to market ...
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... showing that the population , and therefore the capital , of the country , applicable to the sup- port of man , or the supply of food , clothes , and other articles necessary for his subsistence , had about trebled in a century .
... showing that the population , and therefore the capital , of the country , applicable to the sup- port of man , or the supply of food , clothes , and other articles necessary for his subsistence , had about trebled in a century .
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All our land has been appropriated for ages ; large sums have been expended upon its improvement ; and it cannot be obtained except at a high price . Additional supplies of food are in consequence raised with much greater difficulty in ...
All our land has been appropriated for ages ; large sums have been expended upon its improvement ; and it cannot be obtained except at a high price . Additional supplies of food are in consequence raised with much greater difficulty in ...
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Página vii - A General Dictionary of Geography, Descriptive, Physical, Statistical, and Historical ; forming a complete Gazetteer of the World. By A. KEITH JOHNSTON, FRSE 8vo. 31s. 6d. M'Culloch's Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the various Countries, Places, and principal Natural Objects in the World.
Página 32 - 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 42 - The liberal reward of labour," says Adam 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.
Página 114 - An instructed and intelligent people, besides, are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one. They feel themselves, each individually, more respectable, and more likely to obtain the respect of their lawful superiors, and they are therefore more disposed to respect those superiors.
Página 63 - We trust our health to the physician ; our fortune, and sometimes our life and reputation, to the lawyer and attorney. Such confidence could not safely be reposed in people of a very mean or low condition. Their reward must be such, therefore, as may give them that rank in society which so important a trust requires.
Página 64 - Compute in any particular place what is likely to be annually gained, and what is likely to be annually spent, by all the different workmen in any common trade, such as that of shoemakers or weavers, and you will find that the former sum will generally exceed the latter. But make the same computation with regard to all the counsellors and students of law, in all the different inns of court, and you will find that their annual gains bear but a very small proportion to their annual expence, even though...
Página 76 - The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Página viii - M'CULLOCH. -A TREATISE ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICAL INFLUENCE of TAXATION and the FUNDING SYSTEM.
Página 62 - He is liable, in consequence, to be frequently without any. What he earns, therefore, while he is employed, must not only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding" moments which the thought of so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion.
Página 36 - The best interests of society require that the rate of wages should be elevated as high as possible, — that a taste for the comforts, luxuries, and enjoyments of human life should be widely diffused, and if possible interwoven with national habits and prejudices.
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| Título | A Treatise on the Circumstances which Determine the Rate of Wages and the Condition of the Labouring Classes: Including an Inquiry Into the Influence of Combinations Reprints of economic classics Routledge's new series |
| Autor | John Ramsay McCulloch |
| Edición | 2 |
| Editor | G. Routledge, 1854 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 21 Dic. 2006 |
| Largo | 117 páginas |
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