Political Economy for High Schools and AcademiesGinn, 1895 - 108 стор. |
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... competition in the labor - market , and by this means they exacted 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 ...
... competition in the labor - market , and by this means they exacted 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 ...
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... competition of foreign manufactures . Countries which had possessed manufactures lost them ; those which had none failed to acquire them . Both were kept on the level of merely farming their lands to produce food and raw materials ...
... competition of foreign manufactures . Countries which had possessed manufactures lost them ; those which had none failed to acquire them . Both were kept on the level of merely farming their lands to produce food and raw materials ...
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... compete with water transportation , they must put their rates lower than would be remunerative for their whole ... competition with water carriage , It is not good policy to have such places built up at the expense of the smaller ...
... compete with water transportation , they must put their rates lower than would be remunerative for their whole ... competition with water carriage , It is not good policy to have such places built up at the expense of the smaller ...
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... competition between the home producers pulls down prices , and with them also profits to the level of profits generally . If the Tariff law conferred a monopoly upon some producers , as a patent for an invention does , then prices and ...
... competition between the home producers pulls down prices , and with them also profits to the level of profits generally . If the Tariff law conferred a monopoly upon some producers , as a patent for an invention does , then prices and ...
Сторінка 86
... competition when he least needs it , and loses it when it is most needed . Mr. Calhoun proposed to substitute the method of the sliding scale , which the English used in laying duties on imported wheat . By this method a normal price ...
... competition when he least needs it , and loses it when it is most needed . Mr. Calhoun proposed to substitute the method of the sliding scale , which the English used in laying duties on imported wheat . By this method a normal price ...
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Сторінка 95 - But it cannot be expected that individuals should, at their own risk, or rather to their certain loss, introduce a new manufacture, and bear the...
Сторінка 95 - ... from having begun it sooner. There may be no inherent advantage on one part, or disadvantage on the other, but only a present superiority of acquired skill and experience. A country which has this skill and experience yet to acquire, may in other respects be better adapted to the production than those which were earlier in the field ; and besides, it is a just remark of Mr.
Сторінка 23 - At the root of much of the poverty of the people of India, and of the risks to which they are exposed in seasons of scarcity, lies the unfortunate circumstance that agriculture forms almost the sole occupation of the mass of the population...
Сторінка 23 - ... no remedy for present evils can be complete which does not include the introduction of a diversity of occupations, through which the surplus population may be drawn from agricultural pursuits and led to find the means of subsistence in manufactures or some such employments.