Political EconomyAmerican Book Company, 1886 - 134 Seiten |
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... WAGES , VIII . TRADES - UNIONS , IX . - CO - OPERATION , ETC. , X .-- THE TENURE OF LAND , XI . — EXCHANGE , 32 42 48 53 61 ≈ ≈ 2 ∞ 3 5 7 77 87 95 XII . - MONEY , 103 XIII . CREDIT AND BANKING , IIO XIV . - CREDIT CYCLES , 115 · XV ...
... WAGES , VIII . TRADES - UNIONS , IX . - CO - OPERATION , ETC. , X .-- THE TENURE OF LAND , XI . — EXCHANGE , 32 42 48 53 61 ≈ ≈ 2 ∞ 3 5 7 77 87 95 XII . - MONEY , 103 XIII . CREDIT AND BANKING , IIO XIV . - CREDIT CYCLES , 115 · XV ...
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... wages , or the harm of being underbid by cheap labour , or any one of hundreds of questions of social importance . It does not occur to such people that these matters are really more difficult to understand than chemistry , or astronomy ...
... wages , or the harm of being underbid by cheap labour , or any one of hundreds of questions of social importance . It does not occur to such people that these matters are really more difficult to understand than chemistry , or astronomy ...
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... wages when trade is brisk , because he will want some of it much more when trade becomes slack , and he is out of employment . Similarly , that which is spent in early life upon mere luxuries and frivolities , might be much more useful ...
... wages when trade is brisk , because he will want some of it much more when trade becomes slack , and he is out of employment . Similarly , that which is spent in early life upon mere luxuries and frivolities , might be much more useful ...
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... - maker ; the most ignorant and unskilful can find work in breaking stones or mending the hedges . Each man will generally work at the trade in which he can get the best wages , and it is an evident loss IV . ] 37 DIVISION OF LABOUR .
... - maker ; the most ignorant and unskilful can find work in breaking stones or mending the hedges . Each man will generally work at the trade in which he can get the best wages , and it is an evident loss IV . ] 37 DIVISION OF LABOUR .
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William Stanley Jevons. the best wages , and it is an evident loss of skill if the artisan should break stones or sweep the streets . Now , the greater the division of labour and the more exten- sive factories become , the better chance ...
William Stanley Jevons. the best wages , and it is an evident loss of skill if the artisan should break stones or sweep the streets . Now , the greater the division of labour and the more exten- sive factories become , the better chance ...
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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.