Political EconomyAmerican Book Company, 1886 - 134 Seiten |
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... called charity . There are many good - hearted people who think that it is virtuous to give alms to poor people who ask for them , without considering the effect produced upon the people . They see the pleasure of the beggar on getting ...
... called charity . There are many good - hearted people who think that it is virtuous to give alms to poor people who ask for them , without considering the effect produced upon the people . They see the pleasure of the beggar on getting ...
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... called natural riches ; but I . mention them in order to point out that they are not in themselves wealth . People may live upon land full of natural riches , as the North American Indians lived upon the country which now forms the ...
... called natural riches ; but I . mention them in order to point out that they are not in themselves wealth . People may live upon land full of natural riches , as the North American Indians lived upon the country which now forms the ...
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... called wealth unless they be limited in supply ; if we have just as much of any substance as we want , then we shall not esteem a new supply of it . Thus the air around us is not wealth in ordinary circumstances , because we have only ...
... called wealth unless they be limited in supply ; if we have just as much of any substance as we want , then we shall not esteem a new supply of it . Thus the air around us is not wealth in ordinary circumstances , because we have only ...
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... called by Senior the law or variety , and it is the most important law in the whole of political economy . It is easy to see , too , that there is a natural order in which our wants follow each other as regards im- portance ; we must ...
... called by Senior the law or variety , and it is the most important law in the whole of political economy . It is easy to see , too , that there is a natural order in which our wants follow each other as regards im- portance ; we must ...
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... called a natural agent , that is , something which acts for us and assists us ( Latin , agens , acting ) . Among natural agents land is by far the most important , because , when supplied with abundant sunlight and moisture , it may be ...
... called a natural agent , that is , something which acts for us and assists us ( Latin , agens , acting ) . Among natural agents land is by far the most important , because , when supplied with abundant sunlight and moisture , it may be ...
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Adam Smith advantage APPLETON arises BALFOUR STEWART banker become beef benefit better bubble called capitalist carry cent cheaply circulating capital clothes coal coins collapse commodity corn cost cotton difficult division of labour earn employed employers employment England English English Language exchange factory fallacy farm farmer give gold increase Indirect Taxes invention iron Iron puddlers JAMES JOHONNOT John Smith kind land laws of supply less limited in supply live machinery machines manage means ment metal paid payment pearls peasant person plenty political economy poor pounds Primer produce profits quantity railways rate of interest rate of wages Reader receive rent requisites of production rich sell shares shillings silver slavery sometimes spend strike supply and demand tenant things trade trades-unions usually utility valuable wealth wine workmen
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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.