Political EconomyAmerican Book Company, 1886 - 134 Seiten |
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... better things than wealth , such as virtue , affection , generosity . They would have us study these good qualities rather than mere wealth . A man may grow rich by making hard bargains , and saving up his money like a miser . Now as ...
... better things than wealth , such as virtue , affection , generosity . They would have us study these good qualities rather than mere wealth . A man may grow rich by making hard bargains , and saving up his money like a miser . Now as ...
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... of dressing himself well . Next comes the question of a house to live in ; a mere cabin is better than nothing , but the richer a man is the larger the house 10 * he likes to have . When he has got a 11. ] 17 UTILITY . -UTILITY,
... of dressing himself well . Next comes the question of a house to live in ; a mere cabin is better than nothing , but the richer a man is the larger the house 10 * he likes to have . When he has got a 11. ] 17 UTILITY . -UTILITY,
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... better to spend the labour in manu- facturing other things . Secondly , we must always try to produce things with the least possible labour ; for labour is painful exertion , and we wish to undergo as little pain and trouble as we can ...
... better to spend the labour in manu- facturing other things . Secondly , we must always try to produce things with the least possible labour ; for labour is painful exertion , and we wish to undergo as little pain and trouble as we can ...
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... better for it . The railway , on the other hand , is no immediate cause of pleasure , but it cheapens goods by enabling them to be carried more easily : it allows people to live in the country , instead of the crowded town , or it ...
... better for it . The railway , on the other hand , is no immediate cause of pleasure , but it cheapens goods by enabling them to be carried more easily : it allows people to live in the country , instead of the crowded town , or it ...
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... better rule not to put off till to - morrow what we can do more easily to - day . In order , however , that we may be able to wait and to do each kind of work at the best time , we must have enough capital to live upon in the meantime ...
... better rule not to put off till to - morrow what we can do more easily to - day . In order , however , that we may be able to wait and to do each kind of work at the best time , we must have enough capital to live upon in the meantime ...
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Seite 59 - ... first, the agreeableness or disagreeableness of the employments themselves; secondly, the easiness and cheapness, or the difficulty and expense of learning them; thirdly, the constancy or inconstancy of employment in them; fourthly, the small or great trust which must be reposed in those who exercise them; and fifthly, the probability or improbability of success in them.
Seite 129 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Seite 130 - Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.
Seite 34 - ... the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Seite 130 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and 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.
Seite 128 - 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 they respectively enjoy under the protection of the State .... In the observation or neglect of this maxim, consists what is called the equality 'or inequality of taxation.
Seite 58 - Secondly, the wages of labour vary with the easiness and cheapness, or the difficulty and expense of learning the business. When any expensive machine is erected, the extraordinary work to be performed by it before it is worn out, it must be expected, will replace the capital laid out upon it, with at least the ordinary profits.