Political EconomyAmerican Book Company, 1886 - 134 Seiten |
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... materials , & c . , they are only wanted to make other things , which shall be actually consumed and enjoyed by some person . The carriage in which a person takes a pleasant drive is directly useful ; the baker's cart which brings him ...
... materials , & c . , they are only wanted to make other things , which shall be actually consumed and enjoyed by some person . The carriage in which a person takes a pleasant drive is directly useful ; the baker's cart which brings him ...
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... materials ; everything that we touch , and use , and eat , and drink , contains substance , so that we must always begin by finding a supply of the right sort of materials . Commonly , too , we want something more than matter ; we want ...
... materials ; everything that we touch , and use , and eat , and drink , contains substance , so that we must always begin by finding a supply of the right sort of materials . Commonly , too , we want something more than matter ; we want ...
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... materials — any natural agent , and we may say that land source of materials = natural agent . 18. Labour . Nothing is more plain , however , than that natural agents alone do not make wealth . A man would perish in the most fertile ...
... materials — any natural agent , and we may say that land source of materials = natural agent . 18. Labour . Nothing is more plain , however , than that natural agents alone do not make wealth . A man would perish in the most fertile ...
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... material , or at any rate time to make it . But there is no time to make anything , because all attention has to be given to finding shelter for the night , and something for supper . Everybody who wishes to understand the necessity for ...
... material , or at any rate time to make it . But there is no time to make anything , because all attention has to be given to finding shelter for the night , and something for supper . Everybody who wishes to understand the necessity for ...
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... all the right tools and materials around you ; when you have finished one box , for instance , you are all ready to make another with less trouble than the first ; but if you have to go off and 34 PRIMER OF POLITICAL ECONOMY . [ CH .
... all the right tools and materials around you ; when you have finished one box , for instance , you are all ready to make another with less trouble than the first ; but if you have to go off and 34 PRIMER OF POLITICAL ECONOMY . [ CH .
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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.