Principles of Political Economy, Том 2Henry Holt, 1878 |
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... duties as insurers , since , hitherto , the subscription of an extraor- dinary sum has never failed to make up the deficit . A strike is detrimental in proportion as the striking workmen represent more of the previous pre- liminary ...
... duties as insurers , since , hitherto , the subscription of an extraor- dinary sum has never failed to make up the deficit . A strike is detrimental in proportion as the striking workmen represent more of the previous pre- liminary ...
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... , fire insurance , stamp duties included , was paid for at a rate five times as high as mathematical calculation showed it to be worth . SECTION CLXXXI . RULE OF INTEREST IN GENERAL . - SEC . CLXXX . ] 101 INTEREST - ITS LEVEL .
... , fire insurance , stamp duties included , was paid for at a rate five times as high as mathematical calculation showed it to be worth . SECTION CLXXXI . RULE OF INTEREST IN GENERAL . - SEC . CLXXX . ] 101 INTEREST - ITS LEVEL .
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... duties of entry have been evolved out of sumptuary laws . Even the Turks , after having long tried to prohibit tobacco - smoking in vain , afterwards found in the duties they imposed on that plant a rich source of income . That such ...
... duties of entry have been evolved out of sumptuary laws . Even the Turks , after having long tried to prohibit tobacco - smoking in vain , afterwards found in the duties they imposed on that plant a rich source of income . That such ...
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... duties . We might even say that the person who be- gets a child which he knows he is not in a condition to sup- port , is guilty of a grevious sin against civil society , and of a still more grevious one against his poor child . Strange ...
... duties . We might even say that the person who be- gets a child which he knows he is not in a condition to sup- port , is guilty of a grevious sin against civil society , and of a still more grevious one against his poor child . Strange ...
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... duties of citizenship , while children are dependent , incapable of self- defense , unproductive , immature . Only he who knows the relative numbers of the different age - classes of a nation can draw fruitful conclusions from the data ...
... duties of citizenship , while children are dependent , incapable of self- defense , unproductive , immature . Only he who knows the relative numbers of the different age - classes of a nation can draw fruitful conclusions from the data ...
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17th century According Adam Smith advance advantage agricultural amount annum average births capital capitalists cause cent century commerce commodities Compare condition consequence considered consumed consumption corn cost decline decrease demand economic emigration England English especially estimated exportation favorable Forbonnais former France French frequently German Gesch greater hand Hence higher Holland important increase of population industry instance J. S. Mill John Stuart Mill kingdom of Saxony labor land latter less live loans lower luxury Malthus manufactured marriage married means of subsistence moral national income natural outlay paid persons Plutarch political Principles production prohibition protective Prussia rate of interest rate of wages Reise rent Ricardo Roscher Saxony says SECTION Similarly Sismondi stages of civilization Statist Strabo sumptuary laws thalers tion trade usury wants wealth whole women wont workmen Württemberg Xenoph Zollverein
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