Free Trade, Or an Inquiry Into the Expediency of the Present Corn-laws (etc.)Murray, 1826 - 468 стор. |
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Сторінка 119 - ... will be 40 quarters, or 100 — 60 ; the rent of the second quality would, in like manner, be equal to the difference between 90 and 60 or 30 quarters ; the rent of the third quality would be equal to 80 — 60, or 20 quarters, and so on. The produce raised on the land last cultivated, or with the capital last applied to the soil, being all the while sold at its necessary price, or at that price which is just sufficient to yield the cultivators the common and average rate of profit, or, which...
Сторінка 24 - Natural and moral evil seem to be the instruments employed by the Deity in admonishing us to avoid any mode of conduct which is not suited to our being, and will consequently injure our happiness.
Сторінка 24 - If we are intemperate in eating and drinking, our health is disordered ; if we indulge the transports of anger, we seldom fail to commit acts of which we afterwards repent; if we multiply too fast, we die miserably of poverty and contagious diseases.
Сторінка 226 - ... per ell ; that I thought he had paid too much, and that I ought to do it cheaper : the answer I got from my bailiff was, that provisions were very high ; that the labourers were doing double work ; and that, of course, there was less demand for labour ; and that he could do...
Сторінка 119 - ... sold at its necessary price, or at that price which is just sufficient to yield the cultivators the common and average rate of profit, or, which is the same thing, to cover the cost of its production. If the price were above this level, then agriculture would be the best of all businesses, and tillage would be immediately extended ; if, on the other hand, the price fell below this level, capital would be withdrawn from the soil, and the poorer lands thrown out of cultivation. Under such circumstances,...
Сторінка 118 - ... allow them to pay more for it. They have, therefore, but one alternative. If they choose to pay a price sufficient to cover the expense of cultivating land of the second quality, they will obtain additional supplies; if they do not, they must want them.
Сторінка v - No equal quantity of productive labour employed in manufactures can ever occasion so great a reproduction. In them nature does nothing; man does all; and the reproduction must always be in proportion to the strength of the agents that occasion it.
Сторінка 119 - An increase of rent is not, therefore, as is very generally supposed, occasioned by improvements in agriculture, or by an increase in the fertility of the soil. It results entirely from the necessity of resorting, as population increases, to soils of a decreasing degree of fertility. Rent varies in an inverse proportion to the amount of produce obtained by means of the capital and labour employed in cultivation, that is, it increases when the profits of agricultural labour diminish, and diminishes...
Сторінка 13 - Equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal value to the labourer, in his ordinary state of health, strength and spirits ; in the ordinary degree of his skill and dexterity, he must always lay down the same portion of his ease, his liberty and his happiness.
Сторінка 117 - ... be heard of. Suppose, however, that tillage has been carried to this point, and that the increasing demand can, in the actual state of the science of agriculture, be no longer supplied by the best lands, it is plain that either the increase of population must cease, or the inhabitants must consent to pay such an additional price for raw produce as will enable the second quality of land to be cultivated. No advance short of this will procure them another bushel of corn; and competition will not,...