Political EconomyAmerican Book Company, 1886 - 134 Seiten |
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... really more difficult to understand than chemistry , or astronomy , or geology , and that a lifetime of study is not sufficient to enable us to speak confidently about them . Yet , they 8 [ CH .. PRIMER OF POLITICAL ECONOMY .
... really more difficult to understand than chemistry , or astronomy , or geology , and that a lifetime of study is not sufficient to enable us to speak confidently about them . Yet , they 8 [ CH .. PRIMER OF POLITICAL ECONOMY .
Seite 12
... difficulty in knowing what wealth is ; the real difficulty is to get it . But in this they are mistaken . There are ... difficult to say what a bank balance consists of ; the balance is shown by a few figures in the bankers ' books . As ...
... difficulty in knowing what wealth is ; the real difficulty is to get it . But in this they are mistaken . There are ... difficult to say what a bank balance consists of ; the balance is shown by a few figures in the bankers ' books . As ...
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... difficult to obtain . All wealth is produced in order that it may be consumed , but then it must be consumed when it best fulfils its purpose , that is , when it is most useful . 14. The Fallacy of Consumption . It uncommon to hear ...
... difficult to obtain . All wealth is produced in order that it may be consumed , but then it must be consumed when it best fulfils its purpose , that is , when it is most useful . 14. The Fallacy of Consumption . It uncommon to hear ...
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... difficult it is to get any food or to do any useful work , because something else is wanted beforehand- some tool , or material , or at any rate time to make it . But there is no time to make anything , because all attention has to be ...
... difficult it is to get any food or to do any useful work , because something else is wanted beforehand- some tool , or material , or at any rate time to make it . But there is no time to make anything , because all attention has to be ...
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... difficulty in seeing that we ought to labour ( 1 ) At the best time ; ( 2 ) At the best place ; ( 3 ) In the best manner . 21. Work at the best Time . Of course we ought to do things when it is most easy to do them , and when we are ...
... difficulty in seeing that we ought to labour ( 1 ) At the best time ; ( 2 ) At the best place ; ( 3 ) In the best manner . 21. Work at the best Time . Of course we ought to do things when it is most easy to do them , and when we are ...
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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.