Political EconomyAmerican Book Company, 1886 - 134 Seiten |
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... probably puts it into a bank ; but the banker does not keep it idle . The banker lends it out again to merchants , manufacturers and builders , who use it to increase their business and employ more hands . If he buy railway shares or ...
... probably puts it into a bank ; but the banker does not keep it idle . The banker lends it out again to merchants , manufacturers and builders , who use it to increase their business and employ more hands . If he buy railway shares or ...
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... probably do more easily to- morrow but it is a still better rule not to put off till to - morrow what we can do more easily to - day . In order , however , that we may be able to wait and to do each kind of work at the best time , we ...
... probably do more easily to- morrow but it is a still better rule not to put off till to - morrow what we can do more easily to - day . In order , however , that we may be able to wait and to do each kind of work at the best time , we ...
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... probably six or seven per cent . The most important fact about interest is that it is the same in one business as in another . The rates of profit differ very much , it is true , but this is because the labour of superintendence is ...
... probably six or seven per cent . The most important fact about interest is that it is the same in one business as in another . The rates of profit differ very much , it is true , but this is because the labour of superintendence is ...
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... probably be able to sell his share of the produce for more than before , that is , his wages will rise instead of falling by the cheapening of the produce . The tradesman , again , may gain less on each separate article that he sells ...
... probably be able to sell his share of the produce for more than before , that is , his wages will rise instead of falling by the cheapening of the produce . The tradesman , again , may gain less on each separate article that he sells ...
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... probably not be listened to , or would be told to go about his business . But if all the workmen complain at once , and let it be known that they do not intend to go on working unless things are made better , the employer will think ...
... probably not be listened to , or would be told to go about his business . But if all the workmen complain at once , and let it be known that they do not intend to go on working unless things are made better , the employer will think ...
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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.