The Economic Interpretation of History: (lectures Delivered in Worcester College Hall, Oxford, 1887-8)Putnam's Sons, 1888 - 547 стор. |
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... whole matter evaporates in airy metaphysics . Now in the midst of this idle and unprofitable strife of tongues , it is not wonderful that there are people who think that the Gallios ought not to be censured for indifference . But where ...
... whole matter evaporates in airy metaphysics . Now in the midst of this idle and unprofitable strife of tongues , it is not wonderful that there are people who think that the Gallios ought not to be censured for indifference . But where ...
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... whole truths . And besides , the sphere of political action is so vast and so complicated , the forms of our Constitution give so enormous a power to the Administration , and all administra- tions are so enamoured of the possible ...
... whole truths . And besides , the sphere of political action is so vast and so complicated , the forms of our Constitution give so enormous a power to the Administration , and all administra- tions are so enamoured of the possible ...
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... whole political and social consti- tution of England was imperilled , and there was great reason in what the young king told his mother , after the events of Smithfield , that he had lost and recovered his crown on that day ...
... whole political and social consti- tution of England was imperilled , and there was great reason in what the young king told his mother , after the events of Smithfield , that he had lost and recovered his crown on that day ...
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... whole of English history , there never was a sovereign so outrageously and wantonly extravagant as Henry . He inherited an enormous fortune from his thrifty father , as fortunes in the sixteenth century went , and dissipated it speedily ...
... whole of English history , there never was a sovereign so outrageously and wantonly extravagant as Henry . He inherited an enormous fortune from his thrifty father , as fortunes in the sixteenth century went , and dissipated it speedily ...
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... whole year's labour , and would sometimes have required two years ' incessant labour . For it must be remembered that though the law pressed hardly on the artisan , it was intended to press far more hardly on the peasant , cheap ...
... whole year's labour , and would sometimes have required two years ' incessant labour . For it must be remembered that though the law pressed hardly on the artisan , it was intended to press far more hardly on the peasant , cheap ...
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Сторінка 396 - ... of carrying it on until the producers have been educated up to the level of those with whom the processes are traditional. A protecting duty, continued for a reasonable time, might sometimes be the least inconvenient mode in which the nation can tax itself for the support of such an experiment.
Сторінка 396 - Rae, that nothing has a greater tendency to promote improvements in any branch of production, than its trial under a new set of conditions. 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. A protecting duty, continued for a reasonable time, will sometimes be the least inconvenient...
Сторінка 117 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards 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 396 - The only case in which, on mere principles of .political economy, protecting duties can be defensible, is when they are imposed temporarily (especially in a young and rising nation) in hopes of naturalizing a foreign industry, in itself perfectly suitable to the circumstances of the country.
Сторінка 396 - The superiority of one country over another in a branch of production often arises only 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.
Сторінка 396 - A protecting duty, continued for a reasonable time, will sometimes be the least inconvenient mode in which the nation can tax itself for the support of such an experiment. But the protection should be confined to cases in which there is good ground of assurance that the industry which it fosters will after a time be able to dispense with it ; nor should the domestic producers ever be allowed to expect that it will be continued to them beyond the time necessary for a fair trial of what they are capable...
Сторінка 11 - Egypt ceased to be the highway from Hindostan. I discovered that some cause must be at work which had hitherto been unsuspected in the sudden and enormous rise of prices in all Eastern products, at the close of the first quarter of the sixteenth century, and found that it must have come from the conquest of Egypt.
Сторінка 11 - The discoveries were made none too soon. Selim I (1512-20) the sultan of Turkey conquered Mesopotamia and the holy towns of Arabia, and annexed Egypt during his brief reign. This conquest blocked the only remaining road which the Old World knew. The thriving manufactures of Alexandria were at once destroyed. Egypt ceased to be the highway from Hindostan.
Сторінка 344 - The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a century, past, amused the people with the imagination that they possessed a great empire on the west side of the Atlantic. This empire, however, has hitherto existed in imagination only. It has hitherto been, not an empire, but the project of an empire...