Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy

Longmans, Green, and Company, 1909 - 1013 стор.

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The institution of property implies freedom of acquisition	1

Certain rare circumstances excepted high wages imply	3

BOOK I	22

Of Labour as an Agent of Production	29

Of Unproductive Labour 1 Labour does not produce objects but utilities	44

which are of three kinds	45

Productive labour is that which produces utilities fixed and embodied in material objects	48

All other labour however useful is classed as unpro ductive	49

In what manner it assists production	512

Influence of Credit on Prices	523

CHAPTER XIII Of an Inconvertible Paper Currency	542

Examination of the doctrine that an inconvertible cur	550

Of Excess of Supply	556

A measure of Exchange Value in what sense possible	564

Cost of production not the regulator of international	574

Of International Values	583

Productive and Unproductive Consumption	51

Labour for the supply of Productive Consumption and labour for the supply of Unproductive Consumption	52

Of Capital 1 Capital is wealth appropriated to reproductive employ ment	54

More capital devoted to production than actually em ployed in it	57

Examination of some cases illustrative of the idea of Capital	59

Fundamental Propositions respecting Capital 1 Industry is limited by Capital	63

but does not always come up to that limit	65

Increase of capital gives increased employment to labour without assignable bounds	66

Capital is the result of saving	69

All capital is consumed	70

Capital is kept up not by preservation but by per petual reproduction	73

Why countries recover rapidly from a state of devastation	74

Effects of defraying government expenditure by loans	76

Demand for commodities is not demand for labour 79 10 Fallacy respecting Taxation	88

Fixed and Circulating Capital what	91

Increase of fixed capital when at the expense of circulating might be detrimental to the labourers	93

but this seldom if ever occurs	97

On what depends the degree of Productiveness	101

Of Cooperation or the Combination of Labour	116

Of Production on a Large and Production on a Scale	132

Of the Law of the Increase of Labour	155

Means and motives to saving on what dependent	163

Of the Law of the Increase of Production from	176

Consequences of the foregoing Laws	189

BOOK II	199

by contract	218

Of the Classes among whom the Produce	238

CHAPTER V Of Slavery	249

CHAPTER VI Of Peasant Proprietors	256

Continuation of the same subject	283

Of Metayers	302

Of Cottiers	318

Means of abolishing Cottier Tenancy	329

CHAPTER XI Of Wages	342

CHAPTER XII Of Popular Remedies for Low Wages	361

Remedies for Low Wages further considered	373

Of the Differences of Wages in different	385

Of Profits	405

The minimum of profits and the variations to which it is liable	407

Of Rent	422

Is payment for capital sunk in the soil rent or profit ? 429 6 Rent does not enter into the cost of production of agri	433

R Rent	434

tainment	442

Of Cost of Production in its relation to Value	451

Ultimate Analysis of Cost of Production	457

Of Rent in its relation to Value	469

tions	478

S The Theory of Value	482

Of the Value of Money as dependent	489

Of the Value of Money as dependent on Cost	499

CHAPTRX Of a Double Standard and Subsidiary Coins	507

Money imported in two modes as a commodity and	607

Of the Distribution of the Precious Metals	619

Influence of the Currency on the Exchanges	629

y CHAPTER XXIII Of the Rate of Interest	637

Of the Regulation of a Convertible Paper	651

Of the Competition of Different Countries in the same Market	678

wages	688

BOOK IV	695

except the products of agriculture and mining which	701

Examination of the influence of speculators and in par	708

Of the Tendency of Profits to a Minimum	725

Abstraction of capital not necessarily a national loss	740

Of the Stationary State	746

On the Probable Futurity of the Labouring	752

Tendency of society towards the disuse of the relation	760

ON THE INFLUENCE OF GOVERNMENT	795

Four fundamental rules of taxation	802

Of Direct Taxes	823

An Income Tax	829

Of Taxes on Commodities	837

Taxes on contracts	857

Comparison between Direct and Indirect	864

Of a National Debt	873

Of the Ordinary Functions of Government	881

the administration of justice	884

The same subject continued 1 Laws of Inheritance	889

Law and Custom of Primogeniture	891

Entails	894

Law of compulsory equal division of inheritances	896

Laws of Partnership	897

Partnership with limited liability Chartered Companies	899

Partnerships in commamlite	903

Laws relating to Insolvency	909

Of Interferences of Government grounded on Erroneous Theories 1 Doctrine of Protection to Native Industry	916

Usury Laws	926

Attempts to regulate the prices of commodities	930

Monopolies	932

Laws against Combination of Workmen	933

Restraints on opinion or on its publication	939

Of the Grounds and Limits of the Laisserfaire or Noninterference Principle 1 Governmental intervention distinguished into authori tative and unauth...	941

Objections to government interventionthe compulsory character of the intervention itself or of the levy of funds to support it	942

increase of the power and influence of government	944

increase of the occupations and responsibilities of government	945

superior efficacy of private agency owing to stronger interest in the work	947

importance of cultivating habits of collective action in the people	948

Laisserfaire the general rule	950

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX	981

The later History of Socialism	990

T The Value of Money	996

JJ Usury Laws	1004

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Назва	Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy
Автор	John Stuart Mill
Редактор	Sir William James Ashley
Видавець	Longmans, Green, and Company, 1909
Оригінал із	Мічиганський університет
Оцифровано	2 жов. 2007
Обсяг	1013 стор.

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