Political EconomyAmerican Book Company, 1886 - 134 Seiten |
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... LAND , 87 XI . EXCHANGE , 95 XII . - MONEY , 103 XIII . - CREDIT AND BANKING , XIV . - CREDIT CYCLES , ΠΙΟ 115 XV . THE FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNMENT , · 123 XVI . TAXATION ,. 126 " PREFACE . IN preparing this little treatise , I.
... LAND , 87 XI . EXCHANGE , 95 XII . - MONEY , 103 XIII . - CREDIT AND BANKING , XIV . - CREDIT CYCLES , ΠΙΟ 115 XV . THE FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNMENT , · 123 XVI . TAXATION ,. 126 " PREFACE . IN preparing this little treatise , I.
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... exchange by foreign trade . The United States can raise endless quantities of cotton , corn , bacon , meat , fruit , petroleum , besides plenty of gold , silver , copper , iron , & c . Aus- tralia , New Zealand , and South Africa will ...
... exchange by foreign trade . The United States can raise endless quantities of cotton , corn , bacon , meat , fruit , petroleum , besides plenty of gold , silver , copper , iron , & c . Aus- tralia , New Zealand , and South Africa will ...
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... exchange it for food and necessaries , of course he may do so . But , as a general rule , he cannot do this without working for a length of time , waiting till the produce is finished and sold . In order to do this he wants something ...
... exchange it for food and necessaries , of course he may do so . But , as a general rule , he cannot do this without working for a length of time , waiting till the produce is finished and sold . In order to do this he wants something ...
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... exchange for the same money wages . People are accustomed to think far too much about the number of shillings they get for a day's work ; they fancy that , if they get 25 per cent . more money wages , they must be 25 per cent . more ...
... exchange for the same money wages . People are accustomed to think far too much about the number of shillings they get for a day's work ; they fancy that , if they get 25 per cent . more money wages , they must be 25 per cent . more ...
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... that he can well afford to pay the difference out of his own great profits . Bu if political economy is to be believed , the wage workmen are really the value of the goods produced , VIII . ] 63 TRADES - UNIONS . —EXCHANGE, 32 42 48.
... that he can well afford to pay the difference out of his own great profits . Bu if political economy is to be believed , the wage workmen are really the value of the goods produced , VIII . ] 63 TRADES - UNIONS . —EXCHANGE, 32 42 48.
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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.