Political EconomyAmerican Book Company, 1886 - 134 Seiten |
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... strikes and lockouts , opposition to improvements , improvidence , destitution , misguided charity , and discouraging failure in many well - intended measures . More than forty years ago Miss Martineau successfully popularised the ...
... strikes and lockouts , opposition to improvements , improvidence , destitution , misguided charity , and discouraging failure in many well - intended measures . More than forty years ago Miss Martineau successfully popularised the ...
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... strikes , by refusing to use machinery , and by trying , in various ways , to resist the production of wealth . Working men have made a political economy of their own : they want to make themselves rich by taking care not to produce too ...
... strikes , by refusing to use machinery , and by trying , in various ways , to resist the production of wealth . Working men have made a political economy of their own : they want to make themselves rich by taking care not to produce too ...
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... striking a medal or coin is a very slow and costly work ; but , when once good dies are finished , it is easy to strike a great many coins with them , and the cost of the striking is very small . The printing press , however , is the ...
... striking a medal or coin is a very slow and costly work ; but , when once good dies are finished , it is easy to strike a great many coins with them , and the cost of the striking is very small . The printing press , however , is the ...
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... strikes . Employers are regarded as tyrants who can do just as they like . But this is altogether a mistake . No capitalists can for more than a year or two make unusual profits , because , if they do , other capitalists are sure to ...
... strikes . Employers are regarded as tyrants who can do just as they like . But this is altogether a mistake . No capitalists can for more than a year or two make unusual profits , because , if they do , other capitalists are sure to ...
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... strike in a body , but simply leave one place when they can get a better , have raised their own wages quite as much as any union could have done it for them . Workmen are 50. Strikes and Lockouts . said to strike , that is , to strike ...
... strike in a body , but simply leave one place when they can get a better , have raised their own wages quite as much as any union could have done it for them . Workmen are 50. Strikes and Lockouts . said to strike , that is , to strike ...
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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.