A Manual of Political EconomyG. P. Putnam & son, 1868 - 259 стор. |
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... results . It has , indeed , been made matter of set purpose to confine its exami- nation of the laws of the production of the objects which constitute wealth , to “ such of them as are laws of the human mind ; " as may be seen by ...
... results . It has , indeed , been made matter of set purpose to confine its exami- nation of the laws of the production of the objects which constitute wealth , to “ such of them as are laws of the human mind ; " as may be seen by ...
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... resulting from all Modes of Indirect Taxation Taxes should be so adjusted as to subserve the Purposes for which Government is instituted May be made to operate as in the nature of Penalties for Violation of Regulations to which the ...
... resulting from all Modes of Indirect Taxation Taxes should be so adjusted as to subserve the Purposes for which Government is instituted May be made to operate as in the nature of Penalties for Violation of Regulations to which the ...
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... result is foresight , and that alone , can conduct us in active life to modify the one by the other to our advantage . In short , SCIENCE WHENCE FORESIGHT , FORESIGHT WHENCE AC- TION , Such is the simple formula which expresses the ...
... result is foresight , and that alone , can conduct us in active life to modify the one by the other to our advantage . In short , SCIENCE WHENCE FORESIGHT , FORESIGHT WHENCE AC- TION , Such is the simple formula which expresses the ...
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... or rule . Every accession to knowledge diminishes the catalogue of things thus regarded as outside the pale , within which certain effects are confi . dently anticipated to result from given causes , and arranges 12 INTRODUCTION .
... or rule . Every accession to knowledge diminishes the catalogue of things thus regarded as outside the pale , within which certain effects are confi . dently anticipated to result from given causes , and arranges 12 INTRODUCTION .
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Erasmus Peshine Smith. dently anticipated to result from given causes , and arranges them in relations with each other , no longer imagined as fluctuating , but distinctly seen to be constant and invariable . Knowledge gives power ...
Erasmus Peshine Smith. dently anticipated to result from given causes , and arranges them in relations with each other , no longer imagined as fluctuating , but distinctly seen to be constant and invariable . Knowledge gives power ...
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Сторінка 61 - ... it is the law of production from the land, that in any given state of agricultural skill and knowledge...
Сторінка 135 - The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbour, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.
Сторінка 267 - A country cannot be expected to renounce the power of taxing foreigners, unless foreigners will in return practise towards itself the same forbearance. The only mode in which a country can save itself from being a loser by the revenue duties imposed by other countries on its commodities, is to impose corresponding revenue duties on theirs.
Сторінка 90 - ... second, and it is regulated as before by the difference in 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 labor.
Сторінка 77 - Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.
Сторінка 255 - The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same State, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature, all those things, in short, which are proper to be provided for by local legislation, can never be desirable cares of a general jurisdiction.
Сторінка 183 - The capital which is employed in purchasing in one part of the country, in order to sell in another, the produce of the industry of that country, generally replaces, by every such operation, two distinct capitals, that had both been employed in the agriculture or manufactures of that country, and thereby enables them to continue that employment.
Сторінка 178 - ... with quite different tools. A country weaver, who cultivates a small farm, must lose a good deal of time in passing from his loom to the field, and from the field to his loom. When the two trades can be carried on in the same workhouse, the loss of time is no doubt much less. It is even in this case, however, very considerable. A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment to another.
Сторінка 20 - It makes entire abstraction of every other human passion or motive; except those which may be regarded as perpetually antagonizing principles to the desire of wealth, namely, aversion to labour, and desire of the present enjoyment of costly indulgences.
Сторінка 171 - Do not look at us. We sit enchanted here, we know not why. The sun shines and the earth calls; and by the governing powers and impotences of this England we are forbidden to obey. It is impossible, they tell us!" There was something that reminded me of Dante's Hell in the look of all this; and I rode swiftly away.