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... railway system of the United States , 472 ; Railway competition , 473 ; Pooling and consolidation , 475 ; The movement of rates , 475 ; The level of rates , 477 ; Rela- tive rates , 478 ; Distance , 480 ; Government ownership , 479 ...
... railway system of the United States , 472 ; Railway competition , 473 ; Pooling and consolidation , 475 ; The movement of rates , 475 ; The level of rates , 477 ; Rela- tive rates , 478 ; Distance , 480 ; Government ownership , 479 ...
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... railway rates , for instance , the economist is not only compelled to pass judgment upon what is just and reasonable , but he discovers upon investigation that by common consent what is fair or reasonable is decided largely upon ...
... railway rates , for instance , the economist is not only compelled to pass judgment upon what is just and reasonable , but he discovers upon investigation that by common consent what is fair or reasonable is decided largely upon ...
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... railway lowers the price gave 1 This applies especially to the United States and England so far as transpor- tation is concerned ; it would scarcely hold true of the world as a whole . с of his wheat by a discriminating rate , and again ...
... railway lowers the price gave 1 This applies especially to the United States and England so far as transpor- tation is concerned ; it would scarcely hold true of the world as a whole . с of his wheat by a discriminating rate , and again ...
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... railway strike would be felt as a national misfortune . Indeed , this interdependence is international in its scope . Eng- land relies on other nations to send her food in exchange for her manufactured products , and many a German ...
... railway strike would be felt as a national misfortune . Indeed , this interdependence is international in its scope . Eng- land relies on other nations to send her food in exchange for her manufactured products , and many a German ...
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... railways , the railway presidents were indemnified for the loss of their positions by large payments ; in other words , their offices were looked upon as vested interests . England is the classic land of vested interests . An office in ...
... railways , the railway presidents were indemnified for the loss of their positions by large payments ; in other words , their offices were looked upon as vested interests . England is the classic land of vested interests . An office in ...
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Сторінка 370 - 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 81 - 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 38 - 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 38 - 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 184 - 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 586 - ... agent of any person, corporation, or syndicate in making such entry, nor in collusion with any person, corporation, or syndicate to give them the benefit of the land entered, or any part thereof, or the timber thereon...
Сторінка 224 - 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 monetary standard.
Сторінка 81 - ... 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 76 - The western States (I speak now from my own observation) stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way.
Сторінка 114 - 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.