Political EconomyAmerican Book Company, 1886 - 134 Seiten |
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... facts relating to the state or community . All these sciences are useful in show- ing how we may be made more healthy , wealthy , and wise . But Political Economy is distinct from all these other sciences , and treats of wealth itself ...
... facts relating to the state or community . All these sciences are useful in show- ing how we may be made more healthy , wealthy , and wise . But Political Economy is distinct from all these other sciences , and treats of wealth itself ...
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... fact is that , just as physical science was formerly hated , so now there is a kind of ignorant dislike and impatience of political economy . People wish to follow their own impulses and prejudices , and are vexed when told that they ...
... fact is that , just as physical science was formerly hated , so now there is a kind of ignorant dislike and impatience of political economy . People wish to follow their own impulses and prejudices , and are vexed when told that they ...
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... fact it is not at all easy to decide the question . The popular idea is that wealth consists of money , and money consists of gold and silver ; the wealthy man , then , would be one who has an iron safe full of bags of gold and silver ...
... fact it is not at all easy to decide the question . The popular idea is that wealth consists of money , and money consists of gold and silver ; the wealthy man , then , would be one who has an iron safe full of bags of gold and silver ...
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... fact is that wealth is more due to labour and ingenuity than to a good soil or climate ; but all these things are needed in order that people shall become as rich as the inhabit- ants of England , France , the United States , or ...
... fact is that wealth is more due to labour and ingenuity than to a good soil or climate ; but all these things are needed in order that people shall become as rich as the inhabit- ants of England , France , the United States , or ...
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... fact that they are scarce . Of course scarcity alone will not create value . There are many scarce metals , or minerals , of which only a few little bits have ever yet been seen ; but such substances are not valuable , unless some ...
... fact that they are scarce . Of course scarcity alone will not create value . There are many scarce metals , or minerals , of which only a few little bits have ever yet been seen ; but such substances are not valuable , unless some ...
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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.