Political EconomyAmerican Book Company, 1886 - 134 Seiten |
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... equal extent of land in Australia , without being remarkably rich . The savages of Australia , who held the land before the English took it , had enormous quantities of land , but they were nevertheless miserably poor . Thus it is plain ...
... equal extent of land in Australia , without being remarkably rich . The savages of Australia , who held the land before the English took it , had enormous quantities of land , but they were nevertheless miserably poor . Thus it is plain ...
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... equal in value to his share . Now , we shall see that it is requisite to distinguish between money wages and real wages . What a labourer really works for is the bread , clothes , beer , tobacco , or other things which he consumes ...
... equal in value to his share . Now , we shall see that it is requisite to distinguish between money wages and real wages . What a labourer really works for is the bread , clothes , beer , tobacco , or other things which he consumes ...
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... equal ; however this may be in a legal point of view , it is not true in other ways . One child is often strong and stout from its earliest years ; another weakly and unfit for the same exertion . In mind there are still more remarkable ...
... equal ; however this may be in a legal point of view , it is not true in other ways . One child is often strong and stout from its earliest years ; another weakly and unfit for the same exertion . In mind there are still more remarkable ...
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... equal ; it is difficult to see how they can be born free , when , for many years after birth , they are helpless and dependent on their parents , and are properly under their governance . No doubt they ought to become free when grown up ...
... equal ; it is difficult to see how they can be born free , when , for many years after birth , they are helpless and dependent on their parents , and are properly under their governance . No doubt they ought to become free when grown up ...
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... equal number of delegates from the masters , who place before the meeting such information as they think proper to give , and then endeavour to come to terms . In other cases the delegates lay their respective views before a man of ...
... equal number of delegates from the masters , who place before the meeting such information as they think proper to give , and then endeavour to come to terms . In other cases the delegates lay their respective views before a man of ...
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Beliebte Passagen
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.