Political Economy for High Schools and AcademiesGinn, 1895 - 108 стор. |
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... tend to improve the lot of the laborer . Nor does it generally , in the long run , reduce the amount of employment . By cheapening the product , the market for it is enlarged , until it employs more people and at better wages than ...
... tend to improve the lot of the laborer . Nor does it generally , in the long run , reduce the amount of employment . By cheapening the product , the market for it is enlarged , until it employs more people and at better wages than ...
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... tends to give them a more direct interest in their work , to secure a feeling among them which discourages shirking and waste , and to bring them within the number of those who receive profit in return for their risk . Profit - sharing ...
... tends to give them a more direct interest in their work , to secure a feeling among them which discourages shirking and waste , and to bring them within the number of those who receive profit in return for their risk . Profit - sharing ...
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... tend to rise , while profits do not . The improve- ments which effect this sometimes inflict temporary hardship on the working classes , but permanently benefit them . these make labor more monotonous and less educative , the reduction ...
... tend to rise , while profits do not . The improve- ments which effect this sometimes inflict temporary hardship on the working classes , but permanently benefit them . these make labor more monotonous and less educative , the reduction ...
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... tends to make it scarce or dear , tends to restrict production by making it more costly than it ought to be . The notion that money is merely an instrument of ex- change , or rather the fact that it was nothing more in early times ...
... tends to make it scarce or dear , tends to restrict production by making it more costly than it ought to be . The notion that money is merely an instrument of ex- change , or rather the fact that it was nothing more in early times ...
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... tends to become equal . 11. This theory of money and prices grows out of a narrow notion of what money is , and it does not fit the facts . It is not in the countries where money is scarce that prices are low , but the reverse . In ...
... tends to become equal . 11. This theory of money and prices grows out of a narrow notion of what money is , and it does not fit the facts . It is not in the countries where money is scarce that prices are low , but the reverse . In ...
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