Political EconomyAmerican Book Company, 1886 - 134 Seiten |
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... workmen would be thrown out of employ- ment , and not wanted any more . If men were not required at one trade , they would only need to learn . a new trade . II . When things are useful . The chief ques- tion to consider , then , is ...
... workmen would be thrown out of employ- ment , and not wanted any more . If men were not required at one trade , they would only need to learn . a new trade . II . When things are useful . The chief ques- tion to consider , then , is ...
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... workmen would be out of employment . Tradespeople favour these notions , because it is obvious that , the more a milliner or draper can persuade his customer to buy , the more profit he makes thereby . The customers , too , are quite ...
... workmen would be out of employment . Tradespeople favour these notions , because it is obvious that , the more a milliner or draper can persuade his customer to buy , the more profit he makes thereby . The customers , too , are quite ...
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... workmen are engaged on any work , we find that each man usually takes one part of the work , and leaves other parts of the work to his mates . People by degrees arrange themselves into different trades , so that the whole work done in ...
... workmen are engaged on any work , we find that each man usually takes one part of the work , and leaves other parts of the work to his mates . People by degrees arrange themselves into different trades , so that the whole work done in ...
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... workmen do the work which no one else can do ; they have common labourers to help them in things which require no skill ; foremen plan out the work , and allot it to the artisans ; clerks , who are quick at accounts , keep the books ...
... workmen do the work which no one else can do ; they have common labourers to help them in things which require no skill ; foremen plan out the work , and allot it to the artisans ; clerks , who are quick at accounts , keep the books ...
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... workmen , especially when old , to learn the new work , and compete with those who have long practised it . In some cases this has been successfully done ; thus the Cornish miners , when the mines in Cornwall were no longer profitable ...
... workmen , especially when old , to learn the new work , and compete with those who have long practised it . In some cases this has been successfully done ; thus the Cornish miners , when the mines in Cornwall were no longer profitable ...
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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.