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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... rise to rent Movements of English population affecting rent Ricardo's theory inapplicable to ground rents in towns The payment of rent no hardship • A protective system would raise rents at the West CHAPTER XIV . THE CAUSES WHICH AFFECT ...
... rise to rent Movements of English population affecting rent Ricardo's theory inapplicable to ground rents in towns The payment of rent no hardship • A protective system would raise rents at the West CHAPTER XIV . THE CAUSES WHICH AFFECT ...
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... rise in the value of money 301 302 303 304 304 · 305 CHAPTER XIX . THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE PRECIOUS Metals throuGHOUT THE WORLD : SUBSTITUTES FOR MONEY : BILLS OF EXCHANGE : THE COURSE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Not as much money as there ...
... rise in the value of money 301 302 303 304 304 · 305 CHAPTER XIX . THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE PRECIOUS Metals throuGHOUT THE WORLD : SUBSTITUTES FOR MONEY : BILLS OF EXCHANGE : THE COURSE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Not as much money as there ...
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... rise to reckless speculation 382 • Bank currency distinguished from paper money . 382 Bank bills cannot be issued in excess 383 Paper money not returnable to the issuers 384 Bank - notes are thus returnable · 385 Hardships of the ...
... rise to reckless speculation 382 • Bank currency distinguished from paper money . 382 Bank bills cannot be issued in excess 383 Paper money not returnable to the issuers 384 Bank - notes are thus returnable · 385 Hardships of the ...
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... rise of prices Probable future course of the depreciation Prices to be equalized throughout the world Beneficial effects of the decline . 407 408 409 410 411 412 412 Former crises of a similar character 413 Such a decline not followed ...
... rise of prices Probable future course of the depreciation Prices to be equalized throughout the world Beneficial effects of the decline . 407 408 409 410 411 412 412 Former crises of a similar character 413 Such a decline not followed ...
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... rise of so many schemes of Socialism and Communism , which gave a character to the Revolutions of 1848 wholly unlike that of any other political disturbances recorded in the previous history of the world . Even if the disastrous ...
... rise of so many schemes of Socialism and Communism , which gave a character to the Revolutions of 1848 wholly unlike that of any other political disturbances recorded in the previous history of the world . Even if the disastrous ...
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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.