Conversations on Political Economy: In which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly ExplainedLongman, Hurst, Reese, Orme, and Brown, 1821 - 490 páginas |
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... tion , and fruitful as a garden , with a city where decency has taken place of pomp ? A great city full of artificers , who are employed only to effe- minate the manners , by furnishing the superfluities of luxury , surrounded by a poor ...
... tion , and fruitful as a garden , with a city where decency has taken place of pomp ? A great city full of artificers , who are employed only to effe- minate the manners , by furnishing the superfluities of luxury , surrounded by a poor ...
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... tion without some knowledge of the principles of political economy . CAROLINE . I am very sorry to hear that ; for I confess that I have a sort of antipathy to political economy . MRS . B. Are you sure that you understand what is meant ...
... tion without some knowledge of the principles of political economy . CAROLINE . I am very sorry to hear that ; for I confess that I have a sort of antipathy to political economy . MRS . B. Are you sure that you understand what is meant ...
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... tion , this science spreads into so many ramifications that you will seldom hear a conversation amongst liberal - minded people without some reference to it . It was but yesterday that you accused the Birming‐ ham manufacturers of ...
... tion , this science spreads into so many ramifications that you will seldom hear a conversation amongst liberal - minded people without some reference to it . It was but yesterday that you accused the Birming‐ ham manufacturers of ...
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... tion to it at an age when the mind is not yet strongly biassed by prejudice . CAROLINE . But what then am I to do , Mrs. B. ? I cannot attend those lectures , and I fear I shall never have courage to undertake the study of treatises ...
... tion to it at an age when the mind is not yet strongly biassed by prejudice . CAROLINE . But what then am I to do , Mrs. B. ? I cannot attend those lectures , and I fear I shall never have courage to undertake the study of treatises ...
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... tion an objection which , I confess , distresses me ; if it is well founded , I shall be quite at variance with the maxims of political economy , and that science will no longer retain any interest for me . I find that you are ...
... tion an objection which , I confess , distresses me ; if it is well founded , I shall be quite at variance with the maxims of political economy , and that science will no longer retain any interest for me . I find that you are ...
Términos y frases comunes
accumulation Adam Smith advantage afford agricultural produce arising augment branch of industry bread capitalist CAROLINE cause cent cheap circulating capital civilised cloth coined commerce commodities consequence consumed cost of production crops demand for labour depreciation derived diminished dities division of labour duce effect employed enable equal exchangeable value export farm farmer fictitious capital foreign gold and silver high price improvement income increase inferior soils interest labouring classes landed property landed proprietor landlord laws less luxury manufactures means ment merchants modities natural value necessary observed obtain paid plentiful political economy poor population Portugal possessed price of raw productive labourers profits of capital proportion purchase quantity raise the price rate of profit raw produce recollect render rent revenue rich rise Russia scarce scarcity sell shillings specie subsistence supply suppose surplus produce things tillage tion tithes tivate trade value of money wealth whilst workmen yield
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Página 163 - And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave ! Where, then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride?
Página 73 - The shepherd, the sorter of the wool, the wool-comber or carder, the dyer, the scribbler, the spinner, the weaver, the fuller, the dresser, with many others, must all join their different arts in order to complete even this homely production.
Página 74 - What a variety of labour, too, is necessary in order to produce the tools of the meanest of those workmen ! to say nothing of such complicated machines as the ship of the sailor, the mill of the fuller, or even the loom of the weaver, let us consider only what a variety of labour is requisite in order to form that very simple machine, the shears with which the shepherd clips the wool.
Página 77 - ... the pins is another; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which in some manufactories are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them.
Página 461 - Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied ; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds ; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth, Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth ; His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green , Around the world each needful product flies, For all the luxuries the world supplies.
Página 45 - But every man, when he enters into society, gives up a part of his natural liberty, as the price of so valuable a purchase ; and in consideration of receiving the advantages of mutual commerce, obliges himself to conform to those laws, which the community has thought proper to establish.
Página 78 - 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 ; that is, certainly, not the two hundred and fortieth, perhaps not the four thousand eight hundredth, part of what they are at present capable of performing, in consequence of a proper division and combination of their different operations.
Página 301 - It is because high or low wages and profit must be paid, in order to bring a particular commodity to market, that its price is high or low. But it is because its price is high or low; a great deal more, or very little more, or no more, than what is sufficient to pay those wages and prof1t, that it affords a high rent, or a low rent, or no rent at all.
Página 297 - The things which have the greatest value in use have frequently little or no 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 75 - ... if we examine, I say, all these things, and consider what a variety of labour is employed about each of them, we shall be sensible that without the assistance and co-operation of many thousands the very meanest person in a civilized country could not be provided, even according to, what we very falsely imagine, the easy and simple manner in which he is commonly accommodated.