Trusts and the State: A Sketch of CompetitionG. Richards, 1901 - 318 стор. |
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... success of which set men's minds at work to devise improvements in cotton and woollen manufacture ; and Wyatt and Kay were the forerunners of the great inventors . As trade expanded and factories grew more numerous , the new capitalists ...
... success of which set men's minds at work to devise improvements in cotton and woollen manufacture ; and Wyatt and Kay were the forerunners of the great inventors . As trade expanded and factories grew more numerous , the new capitalists ...
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... success , and that free - trade nations can keep on competing in perfect reliance on the natural laws of political economy . If either of those two sections of the community is right , we can continue in the old ways of government ; but ...
... success , and that free - trade nations can keep on competing in perfect reliance on the natural laws of political economy . If either of those two sections of the community is right , we can continue in the old ways of government ; but ...
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... successes . Nor was this advance confined only to material comforts and conveniences , to which the teaching was more specially directed ; it carried with it a correspond- ing advance in civil and religious liberty , in the abolition of ...
... successes . Nor was this advance confined only to material comforts and conveniences , to which the teaching was more specially directed ; it carried with it a correspond- ing advance in civil and religious liberty , in the abolition of ...
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... success of the railways was imme- diate ; the passenger receipts on the Liverpool railway were at once over £ 100,000 a year , instead of the £ 10,000 which was expected . Owing to parliamentary and legal difficulties , progress at ...
... success of the railways was imme- diate ; the passenger receipts on the Liverpool railway were at once over £ 100,000 a year , instead of the £ 10,000 which was expected . Owing to parliamentary and legal difficulties , progress at ...
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... success of the Belgian system , reformers proposed that , instead of allowing competing lines to be built where the greatest traffic was expected , to the neglect of the rest of the country , the Government should map out a national ...
... success of the Belgian system , reformers proposed that , instead of allowing competing lines to be built where the greatest traffic was expected , to the neglect of the rest of the country , the Government should map out a national ...
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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.