Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social PhilosophyLongmans, Green and Company, 1885 - 591 стор. |
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... means of elevating the habits of the labouring people : by education 230 4 . - and by large measures of immediate relief , through foreign and home colonization 231 CHAPTER XIV . Of the Differences of Wages in different Employments ...
... means of elevating the habits of the labouring people : by education 230 4 . - and by large measures of immediate relief , through foreign and home colonization 231 CHAPTER XIV . Of the Differences of Wages in different Employments ...
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... means of attaining it . If it be now asked for what end money is desirable , unless to supply the wants or pleasures of oneself or others , the champion of the system would not be at all embar- rassed by the question . True , he would ...
... means of attaining it . If it be now asked for what end money is desirable , unless to supply the wants or pleasures of oneself or others , the champion of the system would not be at all embar- rassed by the question . True , he would ...
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... means of obtaining that which alone , when obtained , affords the indefinite , and at the same time instantaneous , command over objects of desire , which best answers to the idea of wealth . An absurdity , however , does not cease to ...
... means of obtaining that which alone , when obtained , affords the indefinite , and at the same time instantaneous , command over objects of desire , which best answers to the idea of wealth . An absurdity , however , does not cease to ...
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... means for the attainment of their ends . Thus , a field is an instrument , because it is a means to the attainment of corn . Corn is an instrument , being a means to the attainment of flour . Flour is an instru ment , being a means to ...
... means for the attainment of their ends . Thus , a field is an instrument , because it is a means to the attainment of corn . Corn is an instrument , being a means to the attainment of flour . Flour is an instru ment , being a means to ...
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... means of acquiring it . Wealth , then , may be defined , all useful or agreeable things which possess exchangeable value ; or , in other words , all useful or agreeable things except those which can be obtained , in the quantity desired ...
... means of acquiring it . Wealth , then , may be defined , all useful or agreeable things which possess exchangeable value ; or , in other words , all useful or agreeable things except those which can be obtained , in the quantity desired ...
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Сторінка 481 - The subjects of every State ought to contribute to the support of the Government as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the State.
Сторінка 481 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Сторінка 571 - Letting alone, in short, should be the general practice: every departure from it, unless required by some great good, is a certain evil.
Сторінка 195 - I cordially subscribe to the remark of one of the greatest thinkers of our time, who says of the supposed differences of race, "of all vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences on the human mind, the most vulgar is that of attributing the diversities of conduct and character to inherent natural differences.
Сторінка 481 - Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.
Сторінка 453 - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make large fortunes.
Сторінка 482 - Thirdly, by the forfeitures and other penalties which those unfortunate individuals incur who attempt unsuccessfully to evade the tax, it may frequently ruin them, and thereby put an end to the benefit which the community might have received from the employment of their capitals.
Сторінка 121 - The laws and conditions of the Production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them.
Сторінка 573 - Now any well-intentioned and tolerably civilized government may think without presumption that it does or ought to possess a degree of cultivation above the average of the community which it rules, and that it should, therefore, be capable of offering better education and better instruction to the people, than the greater number of them would spontaneously select. Education, therefore, is one of those things which it is admissible in principle that a government should provide for the people.
Сторінка 376 - Gold and silver having been chosen for the general medium of circulation, they are, by the competition of commerce, distributed in such proportions amongst the different countries of the world, as to accommodate themselves to the natural traffic which would take place if no such metals existed, and the trade between countries were purely a trade of barter.