Popular Fallacies Regarding Trade and Foreign Duties: Being the "Sophismes Économiques" of Frédéric BastiatCassell, Petter, Galpin & Company, 1882 - 79 стор. |
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Сторінка 54 - Happy the man*, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Сторінка 55 - The case in which it may sometimes be a matter of deliberation how far it is proper to continue the free importation of certain foreign goods, is, when some foreign nation restrains by high duties or prohibitions the importation of some of our manufactures into their country.
Сторінка 55 - When there is no probability that any such repeal can be procured, it seems a bad method of compensating the injury done to certain classes of our people, to do another injury ourselves, not only to those classes, but to almost all the other classes of them.
Сторінка 33 - A country cannot be expected to renounce the power of taxing foreigners, unless foreigners will in return practise towards itself the same forbearance. The only mode in which a country can save itself from being a loser by the revenue duties imposed by other countries on its commodities, is to impose corresponding revenue duties on theirs.
Сторінка 55 - There may be good policy in retaliations of this kind, when there is a probability that they will procure the repeal of the high duties or prohibitions complained of. The recovery of a great foreign market will generally more than compensate the transitory inconveniency of paying dearer during a short time for some sorts of goods.
Сторінка 11 - It is an ill wind that blows nobody good. Everybody must live, and what would become of the glaziers if panes of glass were never broken...
Сторінка 44 - After much anxiety and labour he produced a cask of wine, and in the satisfaction which he felt, no longer remembered that he had earned it by the sweat of his brow.
Сторінка 60 - ... either to hold or to cultivate, and from manufacturing industries, for investment in stocks and shares and more or less risky foreign enterprises. Secondly. Supposing England does return to protection, will the working classes be benefited by it ? Will foreign nations buy more of our goods, because we put a duty on their goods?
Сторінка 69 - Berlin decree which declared the British Isles to be in a state of blockade and prohibited all intercourse with them.82 • Ibid., pp.
Сторінка 43 - ... wax, alcohol, silver, iron, bronze, crystal, for the supply of our business; and then we and our numerous contractors having become rich, our consumption will be great, and will become a means of contributing to the comfort and competency of the workers in every branch of national labor. "Will you say that the light of the sun is a gratuitous gift, and that to repulse gratuitous gifts, is to repulse riches under pretence of encouraging the means of obtaining them?