Political EconomyAmerican Book Company, 1886 - 134 Seiten |
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... raised most easily . Political economy teaches us to look beyond the immediate effect of what we do , and to seek the good of the whole community , and even of the whole of mankind . The present prosperity of England is greatly due to ...
... raised most easily . Political economy teaches us to look beyond the immediate effect of what we do , and to seek the good of the whole community , and even of the whole of mankind . The present prosperity of England is greatly due to ...
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... raised in like manner . Minerals and metals are obtained by sinking pits and mines into the crust of the earth . Rivers , lakes , seas , and oceans are no slight source of wealth : they yield food , oil , whalebone , sealskin , & c . We ...
... raised in like manner . Minerals and metals are obtained by sinking pits and mines into the crust of the earth . Rivers , lakes , seas , and oceans are no slight source of wealth : they yield food , oil , whalebone , sealskin , & c . We ...
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... raise cattle and produce plenty of milk , butter , and cheese . In order that the world may grow as rich as pos- sible , each country should give its attention to pro- ducing what it can produce most easily in its present circumstances ...
... raise cattle and produce plenty of milk , butter , and cheese . In order that the world may grow as rich as pos- sible , each country should give its attention to pro- ducing what it can produce most easily in its present circumstances ...
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... raise man above the condition of the brute animals - proceed from science . The poet Virgil was right when he said , Happy is he who knows the causes of things . ' 66 CHAPTER IV . DIVISION OF LABOUR . 23. How Division of Labour Arises ...
... raise man above the condition of the brute animals - proceed from science . The poet Virgil was right when he said , Happy is he who knows the causes of things . ' 66 CHAPTER IV . DIVISION OF LABOUR . 23. How Division of Labour Arises ...
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... raise crops ; the landlord comes and takes away a large part as rent , so that the labourers have barely enough to live upon . When we are able to understand why the labourer gets so little at present , we shall see , perhaps , how he ...
... raise crops ; the landlord comes and takes away a large part as rent , so that the labourers have barely enough to live upon . When we are able to understand why the labourer gets so little at present , we shall see , perhaps , how he ...
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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.