The Principles of Political Economy Applied to the Condition, the Resources, and the Institutions of the American PeopleLittle, Brown,, 1856 - 546 Seiten |
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... farm system The land produces less under this system Beneficial effects of small properties Results of the two systems taken side by side Large estates divert much land from production The Scotch Highlands converted into game preserves ...
... farm system The land produces less under this system Beneficial effects of small properties Results of the two systems taken side by side Large estates divert much land from production The Scotch Highlands converted into game preserves ...
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... farm - houses , and furnishing cattle and the implements of husbandry . We must leave out the expenses of the ordinary annual cultivation of the ground , as that is repaid by the crops . " I will ask the men who have the incredible ...
... farm - houses , and furnishing cattle and the implements of husbandry . We must leave out the expenses of the ordinary annual cultivation of the ground , as that is repaid by the crops . " I will ask the men who have the incredible ...
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... farm laborers who plough , sow , and reap ; the farmer or land - owner ; and all the artisans who have fabricated all the tools and instruments used by these persons , must all have their share of the price finally paid for the bread ...
... farm laborers who plough , sow , and reap ; the farmer or land - owner ; and all the artisans who have fabricated all the tools and instruments used by these persons , must all have their share of the price finally paid for the bread ...
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... farm . What I have called the paradox of political economy , like the hydrostatic paradox , is really very simple , and admits of an easy explanation . In proportion as the labor required for ob- taining any useful article is diminished ...
... farm . What I have called the paradox of political economy , like the hydrostatic paradox , is really very simple , and admits of an easy explanation . In proportion as the labor required for ob- taining any useful article is diminished ...
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... farms , and at each renewal of the lease new terms might be imposed , and a higher rent demanded . Thus the Highland lords , who were rightfully entitled only to an invari- able rent levied on the property of the clan , obtained at last ...
... farms , and at each renewal of the lease new terms might be imposed , and a higher rent demanded . Thus the Highland lords , who were rightfully entitled only to an invari- able rent levied on the property of the clan , obtained at last ...
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acre Adam Smith advantage aggregate agricultural American amount annual average Bank of England banks bills Britain bushels capital causes cent Circulating Capital circulation circumstances civilized coin commercial commodities consequence consumed consumption coöperation cost cultivation currency debt demand depreciation diminished distribution division of labor dollars earth effect employed employment England English equal estates evil exchange exports extent fact farms fertile flour foreign former geometrical progression gold grain greater hands increase individual industry inhabitants Ireland J. S. Mill labor land less Malthusians manufactures Massachusetts means ment merchant metals millions natural nearly necessary obtain operations payment persons Political Economy population portion pound sterling precious metals principle produce proportion purchase quantity rate of profit rent savings says sell silver society soil specie subsistence supply theory tion trade value of money wages wealth whole
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Seite 476 - The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself...
Seite 132 - In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Seite 475 - That the maxim of buying in the cheapest market, and selling in the dearest, which regulates every merchant in his individual dealings, is strictly applicable as the best rule for the trade of the whole nation.
Seite 122 - The laws and conditions of the production of wealth, partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional, or arbitrary in them. Whatever mankind produce, must be produced in the modes, and under the conditions, imposed by the constitution of external things, and by the inherent properties of their own bodily and mental structure.
Seite 56 - One of those boys, who loved to play with his companions, observed that, by tying a string from the handle of the valve which opened this communication, to another part of the machine, the valve would open and shut without his assistance, and leave him at liberty to divert himself with his playfellows.
Seite 476 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
Seite 500 - They were themselves, either from their original condition, or from the necessity of their common interest, nearly on a general level in respect to property. Their situation demanded a parcelling out and division of the lands, and it may be fairly said, that this necessary act fixed the future frame and form of their government. The character of their political institutions was determined by the fundamental laws respecting property.
Seite 225 - The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Seite 233 - In every society the price of every commodity finally resolves itself into some one or other, or all of those three parts; and in every improved society, all the three enter more or less, as component parts, into the price of the far greater part of commodities.
Seite 10 - What is annually saved is as regularly consumed as what is annually spent, and nearly in the same time too ; but it is consumed by a different set of people.