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... period in the conduct of the business enterprise in which they are engaged . Again , there is an unconscious coöperation between those who work upon a commodity in the different stages of the process from raw material to finished ...
... period in the conduct of the business enterprise in which they are engaged . Again , there is an unconscious coöperation between those who work upon a commodity in the different stages of the process from raw material to finished ...
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... period is slavery . Slav- ery begins long before improved agriculture , but it now attains its full magnitude as an institution . There have been many dis- cussions as to whether slavery is right or wrong . It is both . There is a time ...
... period is slavery . Slav- ery begins long before improved agriculture , but it now attains its full magnitude as an institution . There have been many dis- cussions as to whether slavery is right or wrong . It is both . There is a time ...
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... period many changes took place in the economic life of the people of Europe , but so far as the expansion and satisfaction of wants is concerned , -the power over nature , the whole period is in marked contrast with the modern era of ...
... period many changes took place in the economic life of the people of Europe , but so far as the expansion and satisfaction of wants is concerned , -the power over nature , the whole period is in marked contrast with the modern era of ...
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... period , commerce was much restricted as compared with that of the present day . The towns made exchanges mostly with the country surrounding them , there being as yet no national or world market of any importance . Plainly such a ...
... period , commerce was much restricted as compared with that of the present day . The towns made exchanges mostly with the country surrounding them , there being as yet no national or world market of any importance . Plainly such a ...
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... period , for the production under the domestic system was not for home consumption simply , but for the market . - Agricultural Changes . During the handicraft period there were also important changes in the agricultural life of England ...
... period , for the production under the domestic system was not for home consumption simply , but for the market . - Agricultural Changes . During the handicraft period there were also important changes in the agricultural life of England ...
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Сторінка 355 - The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
Сторінка 40 - Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society.
Сторінка 84 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Сторінка 217 - It is evident that if the opportunity for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 had still existed, there would have been another sudden change in the actual standard of value.
Сторінка 41 - What is the species of domestic industry which his capital can employ, and of which the produce is likely to be of the greatest value, every individual, it is evident, can, in his local situation, judge much better than any statesman or lawgiver can do for him.
Сторінка 187 - Perpetuities and monopolies are contrary to the genius of a free government, and shall never be allowed; nor shall the law of primogeniture or entailments ever be in force in this state.
Сторінка 34 - At every considerable house there was a manufactory. Every clothier keeps one horse at least to carry his manufactures to the market ; and every one generally keeps a cow or two or more for his family. By this means the small pieces of enclosed land about each house are occupied, for they scarce sow corn enough to feed their poultry. The houses are full of lusty fellows, some at the dye-vat, some at the looms, others dressing the cloths ; the women and children carding or spinning ; being all employed...
Сторінка 521 - England, p. 61. should be employed to bring the miller, the brewer, the cotton manufacturer, the packer, and the consumer closer to the farm. If caution and expert knowledge are employed, this can be done without crippling those transportation agencies which have given the American farmer entry to the markets of Europe and the Orient, and which must be preserved in order to prevent too exclusive a reliance upon local demand. A local market as the regular outlet, and a foreign market as a potential...
Сторінка 84 - ... the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890, and for the fervor of the Populist movement of the early nineties.
Сторінка 117 - The things which have the greatest value in use have frequently little or no value in exchange; and on the contrary, those which have the greatest value in exchange have frequently little or no value in use. Nothing is more useful than water: but it will purchase scarce anything; scarce anything can be had in exchange for it.