Political EconomyAmerican Book Company, 1886 - 134 Seiten |
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... paid for his work . Other sciences , no doubt , assist us in reaching the same end . The science of mechanics shows how to obtain force , and how to use it in working machines . Chemistry teaches how useful substances may be produced ...
... paid for his work . Other sciences , no doubt , assist us in reaching the same end . The science of mechanics shows how to obtain force , and how to use it in working machines . Chemistry teaches how useful substances may be produced ...
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... paid back , with some increase or interest . Capital invested in railway wagons should pay itself back during the ten years that the wagons last on an average . The capital invested in any work may always be said to consist of wages or ...
... paid back , with some increase or interest . Capital invested in railway wagons should pay itself back during the ten years that the wagons last on an average . The capital invested in any work may always be said to consist of wages or ...
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... paid to workmen are sometimes more than wages , being partly interest ; the rent almost always consists partly of interest ; and what is called interest may in some degree be really wages or rent . But By wages we mean , in political ...
... paid to workmen are sometimes more than wages , being partly interest ; the rent almost always consists partly of interest ; and what is called interest may in some degree be really wages or rent . But By wages we mean , in political ...
Seite 50
... paid to the government as taxes . 40. The Land Owner's Share - Rent , the second part of the produce , means , in political economy , what is paid for the use of a natural agent , whether land , or beds of minerals , or rivers , or ...
... paid to the government as taxes . 40. The Land Owner's Share - Rent , the second part of the produce , means , in political economy , what is paid for the use of a natural agent , whether land , or beds of minerals , or rivers , or ...
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... paid during every year in which the capital is used , and in the same proportion for longer or shorter times . The rates of interest actually paid in business vary very much , from one or two per cent . up to fifty per cent . or more ...
... paid during every year in which the capital is used , and in the same proportion for longer or shorter times . The rates of interest actually paid in business vary very much , from one or two per cent . up to fifty per cent . or more ...
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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.