Trusts and the State: A Sketch of CompetitionG. Richards, 1901 - 318 стор. |
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... individual members of Parliament , and so gained an Act enforcing the legal fixing of their wages as late as 1773. But the old system was already dead , and the industrial revolution which began with the great inventions of Arkwright ...
... individual members of Parliament , and so gained an Act enforcing the legal fixing of their wages as late as 1773. But the old system was already dead , and the industrial revolution which began with the great inventions of Arkwright ...
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... individual to dispose of his time and of his labour in the way and on the terms which he may judge most con- ducive to his own interest , can take place without violating general principles of the first importance to the prosperity and ...
... individual to dispose of his time and of his labour in the way and on the terms which he may judge most con- ducive to his own interest , can take place without violating general principles of the first importance to the prosperity and ...
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... individual is the best judge of his own advantage ; and since the nation is made up of individuals , the public interest is fully subserved by individuals acting in this way . " Every individual is continually exerting himself to find ...
... individual is the best judge of his own advantage ; and since the nation is made up of individuals , the public interest is fully subserved by individuals acting in this way . " Every individual is continually exerting himself to find ...
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... individual was not only not always identical with the interest of the community , but frequently destructive of it , as in the cases of adulteration , fraud , and speculation . Above all , the industrial world did not consist of equal ...
... individual was not only not always identical with the interest of the community , but frequently destructive of it , as in the cases of adulteration , fraud , and speculation . Above all , the industrial world did not consist of equal ...
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... individuals into a new collective individual : greatly the most important of man's attainments on this earth ; that in which , and by virtue of which , all his other attainments and attempts find their arena , and have their value ...
... individuals into a new collective individual : greatly the most important of man's attainments on this earth ; that in which , and by virtue of which , all his other attainments and attempts find their arena , and have their value ...
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Сторінка 7 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Сторінка 8 - 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 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 91 - German factories, the young work seventeen hours in the twenty-four, that they work so hard that among thousands there is not one who grows to such a stature that he can be...
Сторінка 248 - To commence the manufacture of such articles as the Society may determine upon, for the employment of such members as may be without employment, or who may be suffering in consequence of repeated reductions in their wages.
Сторінка 75 - The untimely labour of the night, and the protracted labour of the day, with respect to children, not only tends to diminish future expectations as to the general sum of life and industry, by impairing the strength and destroying the vital stamina of the rising generation, but it too often gives encouragement to idleness, extravagance, and profligacy in the parents, who, contrary to the order of nature, subsist by the oppression of their offspring.
Сторінка 25 - That the maxim of buying in the cheapest market, and selling in the dearest, which regulates every merchant in his individual dealings, is strictly applicable, as the best rule for the trade of the whole nation.
Сторінка 86 - Mine is that masculine species of charity which would lead me to inculcate in the minds of the labouring classes the love of independence, the privilege of self-respect, the disdain of being patronised or petted, the desire to accumulate, and the ambition to rise.
Сторінка 26 - It is not impossible, therefore, that some of the regulations of this famous act may have proceeded from national animosity. They are as wise, however, as if they had all been dictated by the most deliberate wisdom.
Сторінка 57 - As the easy, regular, healthy, rational employment of the individuals forming these societies will create a very large surplus of their own products, beyond what they will have any desire to consume, each may be freely permitted to receive from the general store of the community whatever they may require. This, in practice, will prove to be the greatest economy...
Сторінка 91 - Never will I believe that what makes a population stronger, and healthier, and wiser, and better, can ultimately make it poorer.