American Political Economy: Including Stricures on the Management of the Currency and the Finances Since 1861, with a Chart Showing the Fluctuations in the Price of GoldC. Scribner's Sons, 1890 - 495 стор. |
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... average dividend of over six per cent ; and that the number of depositors was 248,900 , so that the average amount to the credit of each depositor was a fraction over $ 202 . This aggregate of savings - made up , be it remembered , by ...
... average dividend of over six per cent ; and that the number of depositors was 248,900 , so that the average amount to the credit of each depositor was a fraction over $ 202 . This aggregate of savings - made up , be it remembered , by ...
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... average of the labor required for making or obtaining the commodity , and not by the greater or smaller amount of labor which circumstances might render necessary in a particular case . If any person has a monopoly granted by the ...
... average of the labor required for making or obtaining the commodity , and not by the greater or smaller amount of labor which circumstances might render necessary in a particular case . If any person has a monopoly granted by the ...
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... average cost of the pearls in labor . But the business is a mere lottery : one diver may bring up , from his first plunge , a pearl worth a hundred dollars ; another may dive for a week , and obtain little or nothing . If a capitalist ...
... average cost of the pearls in labor . But the business is a mere lottery : one diver may bring up , from his first plunge , a pearl worth a hundred dollars ; another may dive for a week , and obtain little or nothing . If a capitalist ...
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... average return , the whole profit divided by the whole number of adventurers , would not keep one from starvation . Take another instance . Three persons out of four , when the temptation is brought home to them , will buy a ticket in a ...
... average return , the whole profit divided by the whole number of adventurers , would not keep one from starvation . Take another instance . Three persons out of four , when the temptation is brought home to them , will buy a ticket in a ...
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... average , the labor expended upon it at that stage . Competition , then , when it is free , or competition modified by custom , determines the distribution of the value of a product among those who have concurred in its production . How ...
... average , the labor expended upon it at that stage . Competition , then , when it is free , or competition modified by custom , determines the distribution of the value of a product among those who have concurred in its production . How ...
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Сторінка 312 - And the children of Israel did so and gathered, some more, some less. And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
Сторінка 491 - The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself...
Сторінка 335 - ... no State shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts.
Сторінка 427 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as Little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Сторінка 494 - The superiority of one country over another in a branch of production, often arises only from having begun it sooner. There may be no inherent advantage on one part, or disadvantage on the other, but only a present superiority of acquired skill and experience.
Сторінка 427 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Сторінка 108 - The laws and conditions of the production of wealth, partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional, or arbitrary in them. Whatever mankind produce, must be produced in the modes, and under the conditions, imposed by the constitution of external things, and by the inherent properties of their own bodily and mental structure.
Сторінка 427 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Сторінка 218 - When the stocks of many rich merchants are turned into the same trade, their mutual competition naturally tends to lower its profit; and when there is a like increase of stock in all the different trades carried on in the same society, the same competition must produce the same effect in them all.
Сторінка 491 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.