Political EconomyAmerican Book Company, 1886 - 134 Seiten |
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Seite 14
... sell the love of relatives , the esteem of friends , the happiness of a good con- science . Wealth may do a great deal , but it cannot really ensure those things which are more precious than pearls and rubies . Political economy does ...
... sell the love of relatives , the esteem of friends , the happiness of a good con- science . Wealth may do a great deal , but it cannot really ensure those things which are more precious than pearls and rubies . Political economy does ...
Seite 16
... sell it . But , instead of the long word commodity , I shall often use the shorter word goods , and the reader should remem- ber that goods commodities = portion of wealth . CHAPTER II . UTILITY . After a little 10. Our 16 [ CII ...
... sell it . But , instead of the long word commodity , I shall often use the shorter word goods , and the reader should remem- ber that goods commodities = portion of wealth . CHAPTER II . UTILITY . After a little 10. Our 16 [ CII ...
Seite 54
... sell it in order to buy food and clothes , and to pay the rent of his house . Instead , then , of receiving an actual share of the produce , he receives from the capitalist as much money as is supposed to be equal in value to his share ...
... sell it in order to buy food and clothes , and to pay the rent of his house . Instead , then , of receiving an actual share of the produce , he receives from the capitalist as much money as is supposed to be equal in value to his share ...
Seite 55
... 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 , but he may sell so ...
... 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 , but he may sell so ...
Seite 58
... sell the picture for thousands of pounds , because there are many rich people who wish to possess good pictures . 45. Adam Smith on Wages . There are , how- ever , various circumstances which cause wages in any particular employment to ...
... sell the picture for thousands of pounds , because there are many rich people who wish to possess good pictures . 45. Adam Smith on Wages . There are , how- ever , various circumstances which cause wages in any particular employment to ...
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Adam Smith advantage APPLETON arises BALFOUR STEWART banker become beef benefit better bubble called capitalist carry cent cheaply circulating capital clothes coal coins collapse commodity corn cost cotton difficult division of labour earn employed employers employment England English English Language exchange factory fallacy farm farmer give gold increase Indirect Taxes invention iron Iron puddlers JAMES JOHONNOT John Smith kind land laws of supply less limited in supply live machinery machines manage means ment metal paid payment pearls peasant person plenty political economy poor pounds Primer produce profits quantity railways rate of interest rate of wages Reader receive rent requisites of production rich sell shares shillings silver slavery sometimes spend strike supply and demand tenant things trade trades-unions usually utility valuable wealth wine workmen
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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.