Political Economy for High Schools and AcademiesGinn, 1895 - 108 стор. |
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... better wages and reduced the hours of labor . Some of them , not content with this result , propose to put an end to free competition altogether . They want the State to take possession of all the capital , and to employ all the labor ...
... better wages and reduced the hours of labor . Some of them , not content with this result , propose to put an end to free competition altogether . They want the State to take possession of all the capital , and to employ all the labor ...
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... better opportunity of studying its vegetation as a source of supply for food and clothing ; and they begin to cultivate some plants in preference to others , gather- ing seeds in the fall and planting them in the spring . Under this ...
... better opportunity of studying its vegetation as a source of supply for food and clothing ; and they begin to cultivate some plants in preference to others , gather- ing seeds in the fall and planting them in the spring . Under this ...
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... better able to supply his wants out of her stores . -- 6. As in the warmer parts of America , so probably in Asia and Europe also , it was the growth of population which drove men to give up the old savage way of living , and then that ...
... better able to supply his wants out of her stores . -- 6. As in the warmer parts of America , so probably in Asia and Europe also , it was the growth of population which drove men to give up the old savage way of living , and then that ...
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... better ways of getting it , or finding new supplies of it , the price we pay for articles is not always what it costs to produce them . If we can reproduce or replace them with less outlay of labor than when they were made , we will not ...
... better ways of getting it , or finding new supplies of it , the price we pay for articles is not always what it costs to produce them . If we can reproduce or replace them with less outlay of labor than when they were made , we will not ...
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... The more people in a country , the larger should be the share of necessaries which falls to each . Men pass from worse to better in land , labor and food . CHAPTER III . Land and Farming . I. WE have 14 POLITICAL ECONOMY .
... The more people in a country , the larger should be the share of necessaries which falls to each . Men pass from worse to better in land , labor and food . CHAPTER III . Land and Farming . I. WE have 14 POLITICAL ECONOMY .
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