Political Economy for High Schools and AcademiesGinn, 1895 - 108 стор. |
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... manufactures , build ships , improve harbors , enlarge and beautify cities . As people could not but see the great difference this made , they began to ask why it was . The first simplest answer was that it was plenty of money that made ...
... manufactures , build ships , improve harbors , enlarge and beautify cities . As people could not but see the great difference this made , they began to ask why it was . The first simplest answer was that it was plenty of money that made ...
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... Manufactures only change the form of things , just as commerce only changes their place . A yard of cotton cloth is but so much raw cotton plus the food needed to support the workmen who spun and wove it . And both the cotton and the ...
... Manufactures only change the form of things , just as commerce only changes their place . A yard of cotton cloth is but so much raw cotton plus the food needed to support the workmen who spun and wove it . And both the cotton and the ...
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... 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 , which the richer countries ...
... 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 , which the richer countries ...
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... manufacture coin at our pleas- ure , and in any quantity we need . For Gold especially the whole civilized world is fighting , each country wishing to get all it can , and to keep all it has got . For a nation to exchange these metals ...
... manufacture coin at our pleas- ure , and in any quantity we need . For Gold especially the whole civilized world is fighting , each country wishing to get all it can , and to keep all it has got . For a nation to exchange these metals ...
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... manufactures . Venice came next , partly through its drawing on the countries along the Mediter- ranean by its trade , and partly by its finding a substitute for coin in the notes drawn on its bank . As 4. The discovery of America ...
... manufactures . Venice came next , partly through its drawing on the countries along the Mediter- ranean by its trade , and partly by its finding a substitute for coin in the notes drawn on its bank . As 4. The discovery of America ...
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ad valorem Adam Smith America amount balance of trade bank-notes better capitalist CHAPTER cheap classes clothing coin coinage commodities consumer cost cotton crops debt demand direct tax discount duty employers employment England English Europe exchange export fall famines farmer farming favor foreign commerce free competition Free Trade GINN & COMPANY give Gold and Silver greenbacks growth Holy Alliance imports improvement increase India industries interest Ireland issue keep kind labor expended land less machinery manufactures ment metals National natural needed neighborhood nomic notes paid paper money payment Political Economy poorer population produce profits Protection Protectionist railroads rates schools Scotch banks secure sell ships Silver and Gold Silver Certificate social society soil Spain square mile supply Tariff taxation tends things tillage Treasury true unearned increment wages wheat workingmen workmen
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Сторінка 2 - When the oldest cask is opened, And the largest lamp is lit ; When the chestnuts glow in the embers, And the kid turns on the spit ; When young and old in circle Around the firebrands close ; When the girls are weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping bows ; When the goodman mends his armour, And trims his helmet's plume ; When the goodwife's shuttle merrily Goes flashing through the loom ; With weeping and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days...
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.