Political EconomyAmerican Book Company, 1886 - 134 Seiten |
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... keep his wealth like a miser , nor spend it in luxurious living like a spendthrift . There is absolutely nothing in the science to dissuade the rich man from spending his wealth generously and yet wisely . He may prudently help his ...
... keep his wealth like a miser , nor spend it in luxurious living like a spendthrift . There is absolutely nothing in the science to dissuade the rich man from spending his wealth generously and yet wisely . He may prudently help his ...
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... keep good balances at their bankers . But this again does not tell us what wealth is , because it is difficult to say what a bank balance consists of ; the balance is shown by a few figures in the bankers ' books . As a general rule the ...
... keep good balances at their bankers . But this again does not tell us what wealth is , because it is difficult to say what a bank balance consists of ; the balance is shown by a few figures in the bankers ' books . As a general rule the ...
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... keeps us alive ; but we usually pay nothing for it , because there is plenty for all . a diving bell , or a deep mine , however , air becomes limited in supply , and then may be considered a part of wealth . When the tunnel under the ...
... keeps us alive ; but we usually pay nothing for it , because there is plenty for all . a diving bell , or a deep mine , however , air becomes limited in supply , and then may be considered a part of wealth . When the tunnel under the ...
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... keep several exact duplicates of any work would be generally useless . A collector of en- gravings would not care to have many identical copies of the same engraving . In all these , and many other cases , we learn that human wants tend ...
... keep several exact duplicates of any work would be generally useless . A collector of en- gravings would not care to have many identical copies of the same engraving . In all these , and many other cases , we learn that human wants tend ...
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... keeping the flocks of sheep alive . In New South Wales water has been sold for three shillings a bucketful . When a drought breaks up , sudden floods come down the rivers , destroying the dams and bridges , sweeping away houses , and ...
... keeping the flocks of sheep alive . In New South Wales water has been sold for three shillings a bucketful . When a drought breaks up , sudden floods come down the rivers , destroying the dams and bridges , sweeping away houses , and ...
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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.