Political EconomyAmerican Book Company, 1886 - 134 Seiten |
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... employed , rather than ab- stract rules and naked type . The beautiful and significant illustrations are an especially noticeable and attractive feature of these charts . Every chart in the series has in view a definite object , which ...
... employed , rather than ab- stract rules and naked type . The beautiful and significant illustrations are an especially noticeable and attractive feature of these charts . Every chart in the series has in view a definite object , which ...
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... employed to make the clothes . Things are indirectly useful when , like tools , machines , materials , & c . , they are only wanted to make other things , which shall be actually consumed and enjoyed by some person . The carriage in ...
... employed to make the clothes . Things are indirectly useful when , like tools , machines , materials , & c . , they are only wanted to make other things , which shall be actually consumed and enjoyed by some person . The carriage in ...
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... employ- ment , and not wanted any more . If men were not required at one trade , they would only need to learn . a new trade . II . When things are useful . The chief ques- tion to consider , then , is when things are useful and when ...
... employ- ment , and not wanted any more . If men were not required at one trade , they would only need to learn . a new trade . II . When things are useful . The chief ques- tion to consider , then , is when things are useful and when ...
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... employing labour of some kind or other . If he saves up his money he probably puts it into a bank ; but the banker ... employ more hands . If he buy railway shares or government funds , those who receive the money put it to some other ...
... employing labour of some kind or other . If he saves up his money he probably puts it into a bank ; but the banker ... employ more hands . If he buy railway shares or government funds , those who receive the money put it to some other ...
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... employ the capital in assisting the labourer with tools , and feeding him while he is engaged on the work . We must now proceed to consider each of the three requisites in succession . 17. Land or Source of Materials . The word ...
... employ the capital in assisting the labourer with tools , and feeding him while he is engaged on the work . We must now proceed to consider each of the three requisites in succession . 17. Land or Source of Materials . The word ...
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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.