Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, Том 1D. Appleton, 1870 |
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... possession , or due to him , but all other articles of value . These , however , enter , not in their own character , but in virtue of the sums of money which they would sell for ; and if they would sell for less , their owner is ...
... possession , or due to him , but all other articles of value . These , however , enter , not in their own character , but in virtue of the sums of money which they would sell for ; and if they would sell for less , their owner is ...
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... possession . We really , and justly , look upon a person as possessing the advantages of wealth , not in propor- tion to the useful and agreeable things of which he is in the actual enjoyment , but to his command over the general fund ...
... possession . We really , and justly , look upon a person as possessing the advantages of wealth , not in propor- tion to the useful and agreeable things of which he is in the actual enjoyment , but to his command over the general fund ...
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... possession of it , beyond his own wants , would be , to its owner , wealth ; and the general wealth of mankind might ... possessions of an individ- ual , and to those of a nation , or of mankind . In the wealth of mankind , nothing is ...
... possession of it , beyond his own wants , would be , to its owner , wealth ; and the general wealth of mankind might ... possessions of an individ- ual , and to those of a nation , or of mankind . In the wealth of mankind , nothing is ...
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... possessed by individuals or commu- nities , of means for the attainment of their ends . Thus , a field is an instrument , because it is a means to the attain- ment of corn . Corn is an instrument , being a means to the attainment of ...
... possessed by individuals or commu- nities , of means for the attainment of their ends . Thus , a field is an instrument , because it is a means to the attain- ment of corn . Corn is an instrument , being a means to the attainment of ...
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... possessed , by active and thrifty individuals through their own exertions , and by the heads of families and tribes ... possessions ; a thing which scarcely exists in the savage state , where no one has much more than absolute ...
... possessed , by active and thrifty individuals through their own exertions , and by the heads of families and tribes ... possessions ; a thing which scarcely exists in the savage state , where no one has much more than absolute ...
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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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Сторінка 541 - Happily, there is nothing in the laws of Value which remains for the present or any future writer to clear up ; the theory of the subject is complete...
Сторінка 355 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Сторінка 164 - One man draws out the wire; another straights it; a third cuts it; a fourth points it; a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head...
Сторінка 4 - For practical purposes, political economy is inseparably intertwined with many other branches of social philosophy. Except on matters of mere detail, there are perhaps no practical questions, even among those which approach nearest to the character of purely economical questions, which admit of being decided on economical premises alone.
Сторінка 166 - ... the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Сторінка 274 - The social arrangements of modern Europe commenced from a distribution of property which was the result, not of just partition, or acquisition by industry, but of conquest and violence: and notwithstanding what industry has been doing for many centuries to modify the work of force, the system still retains many and large traces of its origin.
Сторінка 470 - For the purpose therefore of altering the habits of the labouring people, there is need of a twofold action, directed simultaneously upon their intelligence and their poverty. An effective national education of the children of the labouring class, is the first thing needful: and, coincidently with this, a system of measures which shall (as the devolution did in France) extinguish extreme poverty for one whole generation.
Сторінка 263 - The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths.
Сторінка 301 - sacredness of property " is talked of, it should always be remembered, that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species. Its appropriation is wholly a question of general expediency. When private property in land is not expedient, it is unjust.
Сторінка 19 - It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without an extraordinary effort of genius and courage, could at that time be free — becomes to a subsequent age so palpable an absurdity, that the only difficulty then is to imagine how such a thing can ever have appeared credible.