Political EconomyAmerican Book Company, 1886 - 134 Seiten |
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... ) may , it has been found by experience , be communicated at a very early age . Those , therefore , who are engaged in con- ducting , or in patronising or promoting education , · should consider it a matter of no small moment to.
... ) may , it has been found by experience , be communicated at a very early age . Those , therefore , who are engaged in con- ducting , or in patronising or promoting education , · should consider it a matter of no small moment to.
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William Stanley Jevons. should consider it a matter of no small moment to instil , betimes , just notions on subjects with which all must in after - life be practically conversant , and in which no class of men , from the highest to the ...
William Stanley Jevons. should consider it a matter of no small moment to instil , betimes , just notions on subjects with which all must in after - life be practically conversant , and in which no class of men , from the highest to the ...
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... consider by people who ought to know better . These mistakes often arise from people think- ing that they understand all about political economy without studying it . No ordinary person of sense ventures to contradict a chemist about ...
... consider by people who ought to know better . These mistakes often arise from people think- ing that they understand all about political economy without studying it . No ordinary person of sense ventures to contradict a chemist about ...
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... considering the effect produced upon the people . They see the pleasure of the beggar on getting the alms , but they do not see the after effects , namely , that beggars become more numerous than before . Much of the poverty and crime ...
... considering the effect produced upon the people . They see the pleasure of the beggar on getting the alms , but they do not see the after effects , namely , that beggars become more numerous than before . Much of the poverty and crime ...
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... consider how wealth is produced or brought into existence ; and how , in the fourth place , having been produced , it is shared among the different classes of people who have had a hand in producing it . Briefly , we may say that ...
... consider how wealth is produced or brought into existence ; and how , in the fourth place , having been produced , it is shared among the different classes of people who have had a hand in producing it . Briefly , we may say that ...
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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.