Political EconomyAmerican Book Company, 1886 - 134 Seiten |
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... pounds of food . Thus we can understand why in South America , where there are great herds of cattle , the best beef is not wealth , namely , because there is so much that there are not people enough to eat it . The beef 11. ] 19 UTILITY .
... pounds of food . Thus we can understand why in South America , where there are great herds of cattle , the best beef is not wealth , namely , because there is so much that there are not people enough to eat it . The beef 11. ] 19 UTILITY .
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... pounds , and every new copy would cost as much as the first . Before the invention of printing , books used to be thus copied out , and manuscript books were therefore very expensive , besides being full of mis- takes . The whole of ...
... pounds , and every new copy would cost as much as the first . Before the invention of printing , books used to be thus copied out , and manuscript books were therefore very expensive , besides being full of mis- takes . The whole of ...
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... pounds , then capital worth thirty pounds is sufficient to keep him at work in this way . Three men cultivating potatoes will of course require three times as much capital , or ninety pounds worth ; ten men will need three hundred pounds ...
... pounds , then capital worth thirty pounds is sufficient to keep him at work in this way . Three men cultivating potatoes will of course require three times as much capital , or ninety pounds worth ; ten men will need three hundred pounds ...
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... pounds worth of capital ; ten men , 10 × 5 × 30 , or fifteen hun- dred pounds worth , and so on in proportion . Thus we see clearly that the capital required in any kind of industry is proportional to the number of men em- ployed , and ...
... pounds worth of capital ; ten men , 10 × 5 × 30 , or fifteen hun- dred pounds worth , and so on in proportion . Thus we see clearly that the capital required in any kind of industry is proportional to the number of men em- ployed , and ...
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... pounds ' worth of planes and other implements ; a pianoforte maker sometimes owns seventy pounds ' worth of tools ; even gardeners re- quire spades , rakes , a barrow , scythe , 12 * VI . ] 49 DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH .
... pounds ' worth of planes and other implements ; a pianoforte maker sometimes owns seventy pounds ' worth of tools ; even gardeners re- quire spades , rakes , a barrow , scythe , 12 * VI . ] 49 DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH .
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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.