Principles of Political EconomyD.C. Heath & Company, 1903 - 705 стор. |
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... Metals , and the Difficulties which result therefrom .. 237 241 VIII . Why Bimetallist Countries really have but One Money IX . Whether it is Advisable to adopt the Monometallic System 246 • 250 • CHAPTER III . PAPER MONEY I. Whether ...
... Metals , and the Difficulties which result therefrom .. 237 241 VIII . Why Bimetallist Countries really have but One Money IX . Whether it is Advisable to adopt the Monometallic System 246 • 250 • CHAPTER III . PAPER MONEY I. Whether ...
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... metals as money ; identity of funeral rites ; and even the uniformity of fairy tales , some of which , according to modern folk - lore , recur in a more or less identical form among a large number of different peoples of the earth ; all ...
... metals as money ; identity of funeral rites ; and even the uniformity of fairy tales , some of which , according to modern folk - lore , recur in a more or less identical form among a large number of different peoples of the earth ; all ...
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... metal rod imbedded in the masonry of the Houses of Parliament . A common measure enables us to compare two things in different places ( which cannot be brought together for direct comparison ) ... metals , gold , silver , WHAT IS PRICE ? 65.
... metal rod imbedded in the masonry of the Houses of Parliament . A common measure enables us to compare two things in different places ( which cannot be brought together for direct comparison ) ... metals , gold , silver , WHAT IS PRICE ? 65.
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... metals is of all values that which varies least from one place to another . By virtue of the second quality the value of these metals varies least from one year to another . This double invariability , relatively speaking , in time and ...
... metals is of all values that which varies least from one place to another . By virtue of the second quality the value of these metals varies least from one year to another . This double invariability , relatively speaking , in time and ...
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... metals when only short spaces of time are considered , yet it is far more stable when longer periods are observed . Wheat satisfies a physiological need that is permanent and varies little . No other commodity ( at least in civilized ...
... metals when only short spaces of time are considered , yet it is far more stable when longer periods are observed . Wheat satisfies a physiological need that is permanent and varies little . No other commodity ( at least in civilized ...
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Сторінка 579 - Corn is not high because a rent is paid, but a rent is paid because corn is high...
Сторінка 173 - Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day...
Сторінка 271 - July 14, 1890, are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. United States notes are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt.
Сторінка 658 - ... the human species would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Сторінка 173 - ... could scarce, perhaps, with his utmost industry, make one pin in a day, and certainly could not make twenty. But in ' the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which...
Сторінка 322 - 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 burden of carrying it on, until the producers have been educated up to the level of those with whom the processes are traditional.
Сторінка 490 - Wages depend, then, on the proportion between the number of the labouring population, and the capital or other funds devoted to the purchase of labour; we will say, for shortness, the capital. If wages are higher at one time or place than at another, if the subsistence and comfort of the class of hired labourers are more ample, it is, and can be, for no other reason, than because capital bears a greater proportion to population.
Сторінка 576 - ... their productive powers. At the same time, the rent of the first quality will rise, for that must always be above the rent of the second, by the difference between the produce which they yield with a given quantity of capital and labour. 'With every step in the progress of population...
Сторінка 490 - It is not the absolute amount of accumulation or of production that is of importance to the laboring class ; it is not the amount even of the funds destined for distribution among the laborers : it is the proportion between those funds and the numbers among whom they are shared. The condition of the class can be bettered in no other way than by altering that proportion to their advantage ; and every scheme for their benefit which does not proceed on this as its foundation is, for all permanent purposes,...
Сторінка 173 - I have seen a small manufactory of this kind where ten men only were employed, and where some of them consequently performed two or three distinct operations. But though they were very poor, and therefore but indifferently accommodated with the necessary machinery, they could, when they exerted themselves, make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day.