Political EconomyAmerican Book Company, 1886 - 134 Seiten |
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... clothes we wear , or whether they indirectly do so , as in the cases of the machines employed to make the clothes . Things are indirectly useful when , like tools , machines , materials , & c . , they are only wanted to make other ...
... clothes we wear , or whether they indirectly do so , as in the cases of the machines employed to make the clothes . Things are indirectly useful when , like tools , machines , materials , & c . , they are only wanted to make other ...
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... clothes all alike ; he may wish to have several suits , no doubt , but then some should be warmer , others thinner ... Clothing is not on the whole as necessary as food ; but , when a man has plenty to eat , he begins to think of ...
... clothes all alike ; he may wish to have several suits , no doubt , but then some should be warmer , others thinner ... Clothing is not on the whole as necessary as food ; but , when a man has plenty to eat , he begins to think of ...
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... clothing ; when they are well clothed , they want good houses , and furniture , and objects of art . If , then , too much wealth were ever produced , it would be too much of one sort , not too much of all sorts . Farmers might be ruined ...
... clothing ; when they are well clothed , they want good houses , and furniture , and objects of art . If , then , too much wealth were ever produced , it would be too much of one sort , not too much of all sorts . Farmers might be ruined ...
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... clothes are chiefly made of cotton , flax , wool , skins , raised in like manner . Minerals and metals are obtained by sinking pits and mines into the crust of the earth . Rivers , lakes , seas , and oceans are no slight source of ...
... clothes are chiefly made of cotton , flax , wool , skins , raised in like manner . Minerals and metals are obtained by sinking pits and mines into the crust of the earth . Rivers , lakes , seas , and oceans are no slight source of ...
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... clothes and houses and regular supplies of food ; the proper sorts of materials must be gradually got together , and shaped and manufac- tured . Thus the amount of wealth which people can obtain depends far more upon their activity and ...
... clothes and houses and regular supplies of food ; the proper sorts of materials must be gradually got together , and shaped and manufac- tured . Thus the amount of wealth which people can obtain depends far more upon their activity and ...
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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.