A Manual of Political EconomyG. P. Putnam & Company, 1853 - 269 стор. |
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... improvement . Physical , intellectual , and moral progress , inseparably interdependent , is the historical fact characteristic of our species , and union in societies , its observed condition . To investigate the laws which explain ...
... improvement . Physical , intellectual , and moral progress , inseparably interdependent , is the historical fact characteristic of our species , and union in societies , its observed condition . To investigate the laws which explain ...
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... improvement in intellect and morals ? — and are these laws discoverable ? What and how many of them have been discovered , is a different question . What is unquestion- able , is , that there are professors of what is styled a science ...
... improvement in intellect and morals ? — and are these laws discoverable ? What and how many of them have been discovered , is a different question . What is unquestion- able , is , that there are professors of what is styled a science ...
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... improvement with the general march of prosperity . - - By observing such facts we may be led to conclude , that such indeterminate causes as arbitrary individual volition produce next to no effect in modifying social phenomena — they ...
... improvement with the general march of prosperity . - - By observing such facts we may be led to conclude , that such indeterminate causes as arbitrary individual volition produce next to no effect in modifying social phenomena — they ...
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... improvement upon their primitive stock . The first planter , moreover , can have little assistance from others , for their numbers are few . " It has been computed , " says Lyell , the geologist , " that eight hundred acres furnish only ...
... improvement upon their primitive stock . The first planter , moreover , can have little assistance from others , for their numbers are few . " It has been computed , " says Lyell , the geologist , " that eight hundred acres furnish only ...
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... improving the means of shelter for his family and stores , and to the care of such animals as he may have domesticated . It " The narrow plain along the seacoast " -such are the words of Mur- ray's Encylopædia of Geography , in ...
... improving the means of shelter for his family and stores , and to the care of such animals as he may have domesticated . It " The narrow plain along the seacoast " -such are the words of Mur- ray's Encylopædia of Geography , in ...
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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 47 - When, in the progress of society, land of the second degree of fertility is taken into cultivation, rent immediately commences on that of the first quality, and the amount of that rent will depend on the difference in the quality of these two portions of land.
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 90 - Thus suppose land — No. 1, 2, 3, — to yield, with an equal employment of capital and labour, a net produce of 100, 90, and 80 quarters of corn. In a new country, where there is an abundance of fertile land compared with the population, and where therefore it is only necessary to cultivate No. 1, the whole net produce will belong to the cultivator, and will be the profits of the stock which he advances.
Сторінка 90 - No. 1, paying ten quarters for rent, or continued to cultivate No. 2, paying no rent. In the same manner it might be shown that when No. 3 is brought into cultivation, the rent of No. 2 must be ten quarters, or the value of ten quarters, whilst the rent of No.
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 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 146 - As riches, improvement, and population, have increased, interest has declined. The wages of labour do not sink with the profits of stock. The demand for labour increases with the increase of stock, whatever be its profits ; and after these are diminished, stock may not only continue to increase, but to increase much faster than before.
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.
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