Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, Том 1D. Appleton, 1870 |
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... hands of attaining purposes generally ; and this power no other kind . of wealth confers so immediately or so certainly as money . It is the only form of wealth which is not merely applicable to some one use , but can be turned at once ...
... hands of attaining purposes generally ; and this power no other kind . of wealth confers so immediately or so certainly as money . It is the only form of wealth which is not merely applicable to some one use , but can be turned at once ...
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... hand , or ( to use Adam Smith's illustration ) like the benefit derived from roads ; and to mistake money for wealth , is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands ...
... hand , or ( to use Adam Smith's illustration ) like the benefit derived from roads ; and to mistake money for wealth , is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands ...
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... hands employed in col- lecting it , many persons of course participate , besides the im- mediate household of the ... hand- ling the public revenues . A demand thus arises for elab- orate and costly manufactured articles , adapted to a ...
... hands employed in col- lecting it , many persons of course participate , besides the im- mediate household of the ... hand- ling the public revenues . A demand thus arises for elab- orate and costly manufactured articles , adapted to a ...
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... On these occasions , the community often emigrated en masse , or sent forth a swarn of its youth , to seek , sword in hand , for some less warlik people , who could be expelled from their land , 34 PRELIMINARY REMARKS .
... On these occasions , the community often emigrated en masse , or sent forth a swarn of its youth , to seek , sword in hand , for some less warlik people , who could be expelled from their land , 34 PRELIMINARY REMARKS .
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... hands ; it has active energies by which it coöperates with , and may even be used as a substitute for , labour . In the early ages people converted their corn into flour by pounding it between two stones ; they next hit on a contrivance ...
... hands ; it has active energies by which it coöperates with , and may even be used as a substitute for , labour . In the early ages people converted their corn into flour by pounding it between two stones ; they next hit on a contrivance ...
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Adam Smith advantage agricultural amount applied ascendant community capitalist causes circulating capital condition considerable consumed consumption coöperation cultivation dealers degree demand diminished division of labour duced duction ductive effect employment England equivalent exertion exist expenditure expense farmer farms favourable Flanders flax France funds greater human hundred quarters ical improvement income increase individual industry instruments instruments of production kind labour employed labouring classes land laws less limited luxuries maintain mankind manufactures materials means ment metayer mode nations natural agents necessary objects obtained occupation operations paid peasant persons plough Political Economy population portion possession present principle productive labour productive power profit proportion proprietors purposes quantity remuneration render rent require rich saving society soil subsistence sufficient supply suppose surplus taxes term of disparagement things thousand pounds tion unproductive velvet wages wants wealth whole workmen
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