Political Economy: An Inquiry Into the Natural Grounds of Right to Vendible Property, Or WealthThe author, 1829 - 398 páginas |
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... arise , but which , as I shall show hereafter , cannot for a moment be supported or established without capital . That capital must necessarily be advantageous to some persons is a certainty which no argument can be required to prove ...
... arise , but which , as I shall show hereafter , cannot for a moment be supported or established without capital . That capital must necessarily be advantageous to some persons is a certainty which no argument can be required to prove ...
Página 95
... arise in his breast upon any attempt being made to dispossess him of them ; and would have re- sisted and resented such attempt to the utmost of his power , and perhaps even at the hazard or expense of his life ; -so readily does the ...
... arise in his breast upon any attempt being made to dispossess him of them ; and would have re- sisted and resented such attempt to the utmost of his power , and perhaps even at the hazard or expense of his life ; -so readily does the ...
Página 100
... arise out of pre- possession and labour bestowed in cultivating the land . Even tracts which are only traversed by the hunter or shep- herd , and which are left by them for months together , and sometimes perhaps for half the year , are ...
... arise out of pre- possession and labour bestowed in cultivating the land . Even tracts which are only traversed by the hunter or shep- herd , and which are left by them for months together , and sometimes perhaps for half the year , are ...
Página 102
... arise between him and the former proprietor a twofold cul- tivation and improvement of the soil , a twofold demand for agricultural labour , and a twofold produce ; which demand , and produce , and cultivation , would go on constantly ...
... arise between him and the former proprietor a twofold cul- tivation and improvement of the soil , a twofold demand for agricultural labour , and a twofold produce ; which demand , and produce , and cultivation , would go on constantly ...
Página 111
... arise a surplus after defraying the ordinary ex- penses of government in time of peace , which might be ac- cumulated by investment in profitable works and improve- ments , as in making roads , canals , & c . , which might be re- sold ...
... arise a surplus after defraying the ordinary ex- penses of government in time of peace , which might be ac- cumulated by investment in profitable works and improve- ments , as in making roads , canals , & c . , which might be re- sold ...
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Página 156 - 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 77 - 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...
Página 23 - THERE IS ONE SORT of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed: there is another which has no such effect.
Página 203 - Equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal value to the labourer. In his ordinary state of health, strength and spirits; in the ordinary degree of his skill and dexterity, he must always lay down the same portion of his ease, his liberty, and his happiness.
Página 11 - ... 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 315 - THE whole of the advantages and disadvantages of the different employments of labour and stock must, in the same neighbourhood, be either perfectly equal or continually tending to equality.
Página 10 - the word Value has two different meanings, and sometimes expresses the utility of some particular object, and sometimes the power of purchasing other goods which the possession of that object conveys. The one may be called value in use; the other value in exchange.
Página 235 - The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating. Different accidents may sometimes keep them suspended a good deal above it, and sometimes force them down even somewhat below it. But whatever may be the obstacles which hinder them from settling in this center of repose and continuance, they are constantly tending towards it.
Página 76 - ... make twenty. But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades.
Página 74 - Secondly, the advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly lost in passing from one sort of work to another, is much greater than we should at first view be apt to imagine it. It is impossible to pass very quickly from one kind of work to another; that is carried on in a different place, and with quite different tools.