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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by
H. C. CAREY,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania.
CONTENTS
OF
VOL. III.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
OF PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION.
21. Every act of consumption also an act of production
therefore, the measure of the other
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the one being,
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? 2. Production consists in the direction of the forces of nature to the service
of man. For obtaining command of nature, man must qualify himself by
first obtaining command over his own latent powers. Identity of the physi-
cal and social laws
19
23. Man the ultimate object of all production. Demand, the cause of supply.
The more numerous the men, and the greater the power of combination, the
greater the demand..
21
4. Production grows as the power of the trader and transporter declines.
That decline a consequence of diversification in the demand for human
powers
23
25. Labor-power the most perishable of all commodities. Perishes, unless the
demand follows instantly upon its production
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26. Waste of labor one of the conditions of early society and scattered popula-
tion. Errors of Mr. Malthus and his disciples ....
? 7. Wages and productive power of England, at various periods
31
38. Wages and production of the people of Scotland, of the past and present, 37
29. The more continuous and steady the societary motion, the more instant
the demand for, and the economy of, labor. That continuity the test of real
civilization. Diversity of employments indispensable to its existence. Waste
of power in, and consequent poverty of, all purely agricultural countries
? 10. Continuity in the demand for labor, with growing commerce, to be found
in those countries in which raw materials and finished commodities most ap-
proximate in prices
VOL. III.-1
(i)
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42
? 11. The more that matter tends to take upon itself its highest form, the more
continuous and steady must be the societary motion, and the greater the eco-
nomy of force
? 12. Errors of modern economists in regard to productive and unproductive
labor. All labor productive which tends to enable man more thoroughly to
direct the forces of nature to his service-wealth consisting in the existence
of that power of direction. The greater the power of man over nature, the
more rapid the progress of accumulation
43
44
CHAPTER XXXIX.
OF ACCUMULATION.
21. Power of accumulation, in both the natural and social world, in the ratio
of the circulation
22. Capital, the instrument by means of which man is enabled to direct the
natural forces to his service. Power of association grows, as he obtains in-
creased command over the instrument. Declines, as it obtains command
over him
23. Movable capital declines in its proportions, as compared with that which
is fixed that decline being an evidence of advancing civilization. Com-
merce grows with this change of proportions
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50
51
24. Centralization increases the proportion of movable capital — that change
being an evidence of declining civilization. Historic illustrations. Increase
of movable capital in all the present free-trade countries
54
5. Fixed capital increases in its proportions, as the prices of raw materials
and finished commodities more and more approximate — declining as they
recede from each other
59
2 6. Errors of modern economists in regarding saving as the cause of the
growth of capital
60
37. That growth due to the economy of human effort. That economy a conse-
quence of diversification of employments, and consequent combination of
action. Waste of human power in all the countries which follow in the train
of Britain. Resistance to the British system, and its effects
28. Errors of Adam Smith in regard to the origin of capital
9. Inconsistencies of British economists
10. Capital grows with the growth of local centres, with constant increase in
the power of production, and in the rapidity of circulation. Summary of the
definitions thus far given in the present work
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71
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CHAPTER XL.
OF CIRCULATION.
21. Division of land a consequence of increase in the power of combination
among men ....................
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? 2. Little circulation of either land or man, in the earlier stages of society.
Large proportion then borne by movable to fixed capital
? 3. Circulation increases in its rapidity, in the direct ratio of the tendency of
capital to become fixed and immovable. Historic illustrations................................................
24. The more rapid the circulation, the greater the tendency towards the cre-
ation of local centres, towards the development of individuality, and towards
having society assume its natural form
? 5. Circulation diminishes in its rapidity as land becomes consolidated, and
movable capital increases in its proportions. Phenomena presented for exa-
mination by Greece, Italy, and Spain ...
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80
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26. Circulation becomes more rapid as employments become diversified, and
land becomes divided.......
83
27. The more perfect the security of property, the greater is the tendency
towards having it become fixed, land then becoming divided. Social pheno-
mena exhibited by France
84
8 8. Tendency of British policy to promote increase in the proportions of mova-
ble capital, at the expense of that which is fixed. Consequent sluggishness
of circulation, in all the countries subject to it
29. Circulation becomes more rapid in the ratio of the tendency towards ap-
proximation in the prices of rude products and finished commodities. That
tendency grows in all the countries that follow in the lead of Colbert and of
France, while declining in all of those that follow in the train of the Ricardo-
Malthusian school....
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? 10. Tendency of the British colonial system to produce stoppage of the cir-
culation. Its effects, as exhibitod in the past and present of the United
States
95
11. Increase in the proportion borne, in the United States, by movable capi-
tal, and consequent sluggishness of circulation. Their growing dependence
on the movements of the trader
101
12. The more rapid the circulation, the greater the force exerted. Force in-
creases in all the countries that follow in the train of Colbert, while declining
in those which adopt the doctrines of the British school
102
13. Difference between Adam Smith and the modern British economists.
The one regarded commerce as the handmaid of agriculture. The other looks
to trade as master of the societary movement
103
? 14. The more rapid the circulation, the more equitable the distribution.
Identity of the physical and social laws
105
CHAPTER XLI.
OF DISTRIBUTION.
21. Of wages, profits, and interest. Large proportion assigned to capital, in
the early stages of society
109
22. Capitalist's proportion diminishes, as the cost of reproduction declines
110
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33. General law of distribution. Laborer's share increases in both its propor-
tion and amount. That of the capitalist increases in amount, while dimin-
ishing in its proportion. Tendency of this law to produce equality in the
condition of mankind. Its harmony and beauty.
24. Universal application of the law that is here propounded
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114
25. Labor's proportion increases, as the prices of rude products and those of
finished commodities tend to approximate to each other................................................................... 116
? 6. That tendency found in all the countries in which employments become
more diversified. The reverse of this found in all the countries that adopt
the doctrines of the British school
118
27. Capital accumulates most rapidly where the rate of profit is lowest. That
rate declines as human effort is more and more economised
28. Tendency of the law of distribution towards the production of harmony
and peace among the communities of the world.....
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29. British economists hold that capital increases most rapidly when and
where profits are highest.
122
10. How the rate of interest is affected by increase in the quantity of money.
Errors of Mr. Hume
125
? 11. Erroneous views of Adam Smith in regard to the natural law regulating
the charge for the use of money..
126
? 12. Absence of consistency in the doctrines of the Ricardo-Malthusian school, 128
13. The value of man rises as the rate of profit, interest, and rent declines, 129
CHAPTER XLIII.
THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.
? 1. Of the rent of land. Large proportion of the landlord in the days of early
cultivation. That proportion diminishes as labor becomes more productive,
but the amount of rent increases. The laborer's share increases in its pro-
portion, with large increase in its amount-both thus profiting by increase
in the power to command the services of nature
131
? 2. Mr. Ricardo's theory of rent. Teaches the reverse of this, the landlord's
proportion increasing as agricultural labor becomes less productive
134
? 3. That theory based upon the false assumption that cultivation commences
on the rich soils, and that labor becomes less productive as men increase in
number and in power. The reverse of this proved by all the facts of history, 136
2 4. Error of Mr. Ricardo in regard to the origin of rent. No such rent as that
indicated by him has ever been, or can be, paid ...
141
≥ 5. The ultimate slavery of man the natural tendency of the Ricardo-Malthu-
sian theory-rent rising as labor becomes less productive. That theory and
the facts compared
143
2 6. Simplicity, and universal truth, of natural laws. Complexity and error
of Mr. Ricardo's theory
150