The Principles of Political Economy Applied to the Condition, the Resources, and the Institutions of the American PeopleLittle, Brown, 1859 - 546 páginas |
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... circumstances . " I am not prepared to accept this remark in all its generality , for if it were true , it would ... circumstances . These sciences may be studied either inductively or deductively ; that is , either by observing the ...
... circumstances . " I am not prepared to accept this remark in all its generality , for if it were true , it would ... circumstances . These sciences may be studied either inductively or deductively ; that is , either by observing the ...
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... circumstances and con- dition of one country , relating almost exclusively to the experience of one nation , and deriving , in truth , most of its utility for them from this very fact , it is at least partially inapplicable and unsound ...
... circumstances and con- dition of one country , relating almost exclusively to the experience of one nation , and deriving , in truth , most of its utility for them from this very fact , it is at least partially inapplicable and unsound ...
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... circumstances which first suggested them . Among these doctrines may be enumerated those of Adam Smith upon free trade , of Malthus upon population , of Ricardo upon rent and profits , of Torrens and Loyd upon the currency , and of ...
... circumstances which first suggested them . Among these doctrines may be enumerated those of Adam Smith upon free trade , of Malthus upon population , of Ricardo upon rent and profits , of Torrens and Loyd upon the currency , and of ...
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... CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH FAVOR THE GROWTH OF CAPITAL : THE SECURITY OF PROPERTY . Vast influence of laws and social institutions Physical advantages have little effect · 78 73 • 74 75 76 77 77 78 79 81 . Influence of moral causes exemplified ...
... CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH FAVOR THE GROWTH OF CAPITAL : THE SECURITY OF PROPERTY . Vast influence of laws and social institutions Physical advantages have little effect · 78 73 • 74 75 76 77 77 78 79 81 . Influence of moral causes exemplified ...
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... CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH DETERMINE THE RATE OF PROFITS Exchangeable value resolved into Wages , Profits , and Rent But labor alone creates value Ricardo's doctrine of profits Page 201 202 203 • 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 · 212 213 214 ...
... CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH DETERMINE THE RATE OF PROFITS Exchangeable value resolved into Wages , Profits , and Rent But labor alone creates value Ricardo's doctrine of profits Page 201 202 203 • 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 · 212 213 214 ...
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acre Adam Smith advantage aggregate agricultural American amount annual average Bank of England banks bills bills of exchange Britain capital causes cent Circulating Capital circulation circumstances civilized coin commercial commodities consequence consumed consumption coöperation cost cultivation currency debt demand depreciation diminished distribution division of labor dollars effect employed employment England English enjoyment equal exchange exchangeable value exports extent fact flour foreign former frugality gold greater hand increase individual industry inhabitants institutions interest Ireland J. S. Mill labor land less manufactures Massachusetts means ment merchant millions natural nearly necessary obtain operations payment persons Political Economy population portion pound sterling precious metals principles production proportion purchase quantity rate of profit rent savings says sell silver society soil specie supply tion trade value of money wages wants wealth whole
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Página 136 - In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Página 126 - The laws and conditions of the production of wealth, partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional, or arbitrary in them. Whatever mankind produce, must be produced in the modes, and under the conditions, imposed by the constitution of external things, and by the inherent properties of their own bodily and mental structure.
Página 60 - One of those boys, who loved to play with his companions, observed that, by tying a string from the handle of the valve which opened this communication, to another part of the machine, the valve would open and shut without his assistance, and leave him at liberty to divert himself with his playfellows.
Página 34 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Página 91 - Thirdly, and lastly, commerce and manufactures gradually introduced order and good government, and with them the liberty and security of individuals, among the inhabitants of the country, who had before lived almost in a continual state of war with their neighbours, and of servile dependency upon their superiors.
Página 503 - They came to a new country. There were as yet no lands yielding rent, and no tenants rendering service. The whole soil was unreclaimed from barbarism. They were themselves, either from their original condition, or from the necessity of their common interest, nearly on a general level in respect to property.
Página 229 - 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 503 - In my judgment, therefore, a republican form of government rests not more on political constitutions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property. Governments like ours could not have been maintained, where property was holden according to the principles of the feudal system; nor, on the other hand, could the feudal constitution possibly exist with us. Our New England ancestors brought hither no great capitals from Europe ; and if they had, there was nothing productive...
Página 237 - In every society the price of every commodity finally resolves itself into some one or other, or all of those three parts; and in every improved society, all the three enter more or less, as component parts, into the price of the far greater part of commodities.
Página 12 - What is annually saved is as regularly consumed as what is annually spent, and nearly in the same time too ; but it is consumed by a different set of people.