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Сторінка xxii
... Wages does not lay the Commerce of a Country under any Disadvantage , • 353 PART III . DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH . CHAPTER I. Wages in the different Departments of Industry - Causes of their Apparent Discrepancy - Really approach very near ...
... Wages does not lay the Commerce of a Country under any Disadvantage , • 353 PART III . DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH . CHAPTER I. Wages in the different Departments of Industry - Causes of their Apparent Discrepancy - Really approach very near ...
Сторінка 46
... wages of their labour , and as a reason- able profit on their capital : the second , or proprietary class , consists of those who live on the rent of the land , or on the nett surplus produce raised by the cultivators after their ...
... wages of their labour , and as a reason- able profit on their capital : the second , or proprietary class , consists of those who live on the rent of the land , or on the nett surplus produce raised by the cultivators after their ...
Сторінка 141
... wages . Had the grocer been able to employ a capital of £ 2000 , he would have obtained the same profits and wages by selling his goods at an advance of 12 per cent . Hence the difference in the price of goods when retailed in large and ...
... wages . Had the grocer been able to employ a capital of £ 2000 , he would have obtained the same profits and wages by selling his goods at an advance of 12 per cent . Hence the difference in the price of goods when retailed in large and ...
Сторінка 199
... wages are advantageous only because of the increased comforts they bring along with them ; and of these , an addition to the time which may be devoted to amusement is certainly not one of the least . Wherever wages are high , and little ...
... wages are advantageous only because of the increased comforts they bring along with them ; and of these , an addition to the time which may be devoted to amusement is certainly not one of the least . Wherever wages are high , and little ...
Сторінка 212
... wages . All this portion could , however , be withdrawn ; and as it determines the power to employ labour , it is not necessarily true , that , when capitals are transferred from one business to another , " many persons are thrown out ...
... wages . All this portion could , however , be withdrawn ; and as it determines the power to employ labour , it is not necessarily true , that , when capitals are transferred from one business to another , " many persons are thrown out ...
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Сторінка 411 - By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without.
Сторінка 115 - With regard to profusion, the principle which prompts to expense is the passion for present enjoyment; which, though sometimes violent and very difficult to be restrained, is in general only momentary and occasional. But the principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave.
Сторінка 229 - It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men, quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too fast.
Сторінка 231 - The germs of existence contained in this earth, if they could freely develop themselves, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years. Necessity, that imperious, all-pervading law of nature, restrains them within the prescribed bounds.
Сторінка 31 - The ordinary means, therefore, to increase our wealth and treasure, is by foreign trade ; wherein we must ever observe this rule — to sell more to strangers yearly than we consume of theirs in value.
Сторінка 198 - Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for ; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what 'comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs. He supplies them abundantly with what they have occasion for, and they accommodate him as amply with what he has occasion for, and a general plenty diffuses itself through...