A Manual of Political EconomyG. P. Putnam & son, 1868 - 259 стор. |
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... whole Stock of a Commodity - The Necessity of going to a distant Market for a small Deficiency , controls the Price of the entire Supply — Operation of these Principles in determining by whom Duties on Imports are borne 224 CHAPTER IX ...
... whole Stock of a Commodity - The Necessity of going to a distant Market for a small Deficiency , controls the Price of the entire Supply — Operation of these Principles in determining by whom Duties on Imports are borne 224 CHAPTER IX ...
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... whole number will have perished before the expiration of the fifth year , and about one - half only will survive their fortieth year . Upon data obtained from the registration of births and deaths upon a large scale , mathematicians are ...
... whole number will have perished before the expiration of the fifth year , and about one - half only will survive their fortieth year . Upon data obtained from the registration of births and deaths upon a large scale , mathematicians are ...
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... whole genera- tion , " said the Times , " man has been a drug in this country , and population a nuisance . " Repeatedly recurring to the same topic , the sentiment so bluntly expressed in this language , was represented by that journal ...
... whole genera- tion , " said the Times , " man has been a drug in this country , and population a nuisance . " Repeatedly recurring to the same topic , the sentiment so bluntly expressed in this language , was represented by that journal ...
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... whole pro- cess may be observed within a brief period , and we have constant opportunities of watching its progress . The granitic rocks , how- ever , which , constituting in the view of geologists the lower and earlier strata , have ...
... whole pro- cess may be observed within a brief period , and we have constant opportunities of watching its progress . The granitic rocks , how- ever , which , constituting in the view of geologists the lower and earlier strata , have ...
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... whole body of them in England , and the greater portion upon the Continent , had believed , and many still continue to believe , that the fact and the law are directly the reverse of those stated by him . In 1815 , Mr. Malthus published ...
... whole body of them in England , and the greater portion upon the Continent , had believed , and many still continue to believe , that the fact and the law are directly the reverse of those stated by him . In 1815 , Mr. Malthus published ...
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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.