Principles of political economy, with some of their applications to social philosophy, Том 21862 |
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... metals as money , how obtained without making both of them legal tender CHAPTER XI . Of Credit , as a Substitute for Money . § 1. Credit not a creation but a transfer of the means of pro- duction · 2. In what manner it assists ...
... metals as money , how obtained without making both of them legal tender CHAPTER XI . Of Credit , as a Substitute for Money . § 1. Credit not a creation but a transfer of the means of pro- duction · 2. In what manner it assists ...
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... metals , as money , are of the same value , and distribute themselves according to the same law , with the precious metals as a commodity • 4. International payments of a non - commercial character · 177 • 179 CHAPTER XXII Influence of ...
... metals , as money , are of the same value , and distribute themselves according to the same law , with the precious metals as a commodity • 4. International payments of a non - commercial character · 177 • 179 CHAPTER XXII Influence of ...
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... metals , and especially gold and silver , to serve this purpose . No other substances unite the necessary qualities in so great a degree , with so many subordinate advantages . Next to food and clothing , and in some climates even ...
... metals , and especially gold and silver , to serve this purpose . No other substances unite the necessary qualities in so great a degree , with so many subordinate advantages . Next to food and clothing , and in some climates even ...
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... metals , the less costly have sometimes been chosen , as iron in Lacedæmon from an ascetic policy , copper in the early Roman republic from the poverty of the people ; gold and silver have been generally preferred by nations which were ...
... metals , the less costly have sometimes been chosen , as iron in Lacedæmon from an ascetic policy , copper in the early Roman republic from the poverty of the people ; gold and silver have been generally preferred by nations which were ...
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... metal was divided into convenient portions , of any degree of smallness , and bearing a recognised proportion to one another ; and the trouble was saved of weighing and assaying at every change of possessors , an inconvenience which on ...
... metal was divided into convenient portions , of any degree of smallness , and bearing a recognised proportion to one another ; and the trouble was saved of weighing and assaying at every change of possessors , an inconvenience which on ...
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Сторінка 319 - There is room in the world, no doubt, and even in old countries, for a great increase of population, supposing the arts of life to go on improving, and capital to increase. But even if innocuous, I confess I see very little reason for desiring it.
Сторінка 320 - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
Сторінка 550 - Letting alone, in short, should be the general practice: every departure from it, unless required by some great good, is a certain evil.
Сторінка 375 - 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 6 - Money is a commodity, and its value is determined like that of other commodities, temporarily by demand and supply, permanently and on the average by cost of production.
Сторінка 322 - ... the other. The rich should be in loco parentis to the poor, guiding and restraining them like children. Of spontaneous action on their part there should be no need. They should be called on for nothing but to do their day's work, and to be moral and religious. Their morality and religion should be provided for them by their superiors, who should see them properly taught it, and should do all that is necessary to ensure their being, in return for labour and attachment, properly fed, clothed, housed,...
Сторінка 325 - ... when they were brought together in numbers, to work socially under the same roof; when railways enabled them to shift from place to place, and change their patrons and employers as easily as their coats; when they were encouraged to seek a share in the government, by means of the electoral franchise.
Сторінка 374 - 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 118 - It is commerce which is rapidly rendering war obsolete, by strengthening and multiplying the personal interests which are in natural opposition to it.
Сторінка 339 - THE form of association, however, which, if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end to predominate, is not that which can exist between a capitalist as chief and workpeople without a voice in the management, but the association of the labourers themselves on terms of equality, collectively owning the capital with which they carry on their operations, and working under managers elected and removable by themselves.