Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, Volumen1D. Appleton and Company, 1888 - 591 páginas |
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... advance , but there must be a very great quantity in advance to enable any considerable community to sup- port itself wholly by agriculture . A country like England or France is only able to carry on the agriculture of the present year ...
... advance , but there must be a very great quantity in advance to enable any considerable community to sup- port itself wholly by agriculture . A country like England or France is only able to carry on the agriculture of the present year ...
Página 57
... advance of food to come back to him with an increase , called in the lan- guage of business , a profit ; and the hope of this profit will generally have been a part of the inducement which made him accumulate a stock , by economizing in ...
... advance of food to come back to him with an increase , called in the lan- guage of business , a profit ; and the hope of this profit will generally have been a part of the inducement which made him accumulate a stock , by economizing in ...
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... advances it to him , and steps into his place by becoming the owner of the plough . Nevertheless , it is from the ... advance ; that is , unless the harvest would yield , besides the remuneration of the farm labourers ( and a profit ...
... advances it to him , and steps into his place by becoming the owner of the plough . Nevertheless , it is from the ... advance ; that is , unless the harvest would yield , besides the remuneration of the farm labourers ( and a profit ...
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... advance the funds need- ful for the business of distribution . 4 $ 7. We have now completed the enumeration of the modes in which labour employed on external nature is sub- servient to production . But there is yet another mode of ...
... advance the funds need- ful for the business of distribution . 4 $ 7. We have now completed the enumeration of the modes in which labour employed on external nature is sub- servient to production . But there is yet another mode of ...
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... advance by which society effects its pro- ductive operations , and for which it is indemnified by the produce . This 8. Another kind of labour , usually classed as mental , but conducing to the ultimate product as directly , though not ...
... advance by which society effects its pro- ductive operations , and for which it is indemnified by the produce . This 8. Another kind of labour , usually classed as mental , but conducing to the ultimate product as directly , though not ...
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Adam Smith advantage agricultural amount applied capitalist causes circulating capital competition condition considerable consumed consumption coöperation cultivation degree demand desire of accumulation diminished division of labour duction ductive employment England English eral exertion exist expenditure expense extent farmer favourable flax Flemish France fund greater habits human hundred quarters idle class improvement increase individual industry interest kind labour employed labouring classes land less limited maize mankind manufactures manure material means ment mode nations natural agents necessary objects obtained occupation operations peasant persons plough political economy Poor Law population portion possess present principle productive labour productive power productiveness of labour profit proportion quantity remuneration render rent require saving slavery slaves small farms social society soil subsistence sufficient supply suppose surplus taxes things thousand tion unproductive vate velvet wages wealth whole workmen
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Página 373 - Notes of a Traveller. 8vo. price 12s. Laing's (S.) Observations on the Social and Political State of the European People in 1848 and 1849: Being the Second Series of Notes of a Traveller.
Página 267 - ... almost in an inverse ratio to the labour — the largest portions to those who have never worked at all, the next largest to those whose work is almost nominal, and so in...
Página 355 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Página 473 - A mason or bricklayer, on the contrary, can work neither in hard frost nor in foul weather, and his employment at all other times depends upon the occasional calls of his customers. 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 164 - ... performed two or three distinct operations. But though they were very poor, and therefore but indifferently accommodated with the necessary machinery, they could, when they exerted themselves, make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day.
Página 258 - It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.
Página 127 - Capital which in this manner fulfils the whole of its office in the production in which it is engaged, by a single use, is called Circulating Capital.
Página 166 - ... the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Página 268 - The laws of property have never yet conformed to the principles on which the justification of private property rests. They have made property of things which never ought to be property, and absolute property where only a qualified property ought to exist.
Página 268 - Private property, in every defence made of it, is supposed to mean, the guarantee to individuals of the fruits of their own labour and abstinence. The guarantee to them of the fruits of the labour and abstinence of others, transmitted to them without any merit or exertion of their own...