The Principles of Political Economy: With Some Inquiries Respecting Their Application and a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the ScienceA. and C. Black, 1849 - 646 páginas |
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... give per- severance and activity to industry . The establish- ment of a wise system of public economy compen- sates for almost every other deficiency ; and has rendered regions naturally inhospitable and unpro- ductive , the comfortable ...
... give per- severance and activity to industry . The establish- ment of a wise system of public economy compen- sates for almost every other deficiency ; and has rendered regions naturally inhospitable and unpro- ductive , the comfortable ...
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... give them the greatest efficacy . " Although a kingdom , " says Mr. Mun , " may be enriched by gifts received , or by purchase taken , from some other nations ; yet these are things uncertain , and of small consideration when they ...
... give them the greatest efficacy . " Although a kingdom , " says Mr. Mun , " may be enriched by gifts received , or by purchase taken , from some other nations ; yet these are things uncertain , and of small consideration when they ...
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... give to another . " That no laws can set prices in trade , the rates of which must and will make themselves . But when such laws do happen to lay any hold , it is so much . impediment to trade , and therefore prejudicial . " That money ...
... give to another . " That no laws can set prices in trade , the rates of which must and will make themselves . But when such laws do happen to lay any hold , it is so much . impediment to trade , and therefore prejudicial . " That money ...
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... give the same securities to the subjects . of an absolute monarch , and they will make the same advances . Industry does not require to be stimulated by extrinsic advantages : the additional comforts and enjoyments which it procures ...
... give the same securities to the subjects . of an absolute monarch , and they will make the same advances . Industry does not require to be stimulated by extrinsic advantages : the additional comforts and enjoyments which it procures ...
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... give it that peculiar shape , without which it may be totally useless and incapable of ministering either to our necessities or our comforts . The coal used as fuel is buried deep in the bowels of the earth , and is absolutely worthless ...
... give it that peculiar shape , without which it may be totally useless and incapable of ministering either to our necessities or our comforts . The coal used as fuel is buried deep in the bowels of the earth , and is absolutely worthless ...
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Página 411 - 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 229 - It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men, quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too fast.
Página 583 - There is one sort of labour," says he, " which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed ; there is another which has no such effect. The former, as it produces a value, may be called productive ; the latter, unproductive labour.
Página 231 - The germs of existence contained in this earth, if they could freely develop themselves, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years. Necessity, that imperious, all-pervading law of nature, restrains them within the prescribed bounds.
Página 198 - Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for ; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what 'comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs. He supplies them abundantly with what they have occasion for, and they accommodate him as amply with what he has occasion for, and a general plenty diffuses itself through...
Página 431 - The liberal reward of labour," says Dr Smith, " as it encourages the propagation, so it increases the industry of the common people. The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives.