Political EconomyH. Holt, 1887 - 537 Seiten |
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Adam Smith agricultural amount bank become borrow bushels capital cause cent co-operation coin commodities competition condition consideration consume consumption cost cultivation degree demand distribution doctrine dollars duction economic economist effect employer England English exchange existing fact force gold greater important improvements income increase individual J. S. Mill Knights of Labor labor power laboring class land landlord law of rent less loan manufacturer ment metal nations natural operation owner paid paper money payment perfect competition perhaps persons Physiocrats political economy population portion pound sterling principle product of industry production of wealth Prof profits progressive taxation purchase question rate of interest reason receive rent respect result revenue says secure seigniorage sell silver social society soil subsistence supply suppose taxation tenant things tion tract trade trade unions United wage-fund wages wheat writers
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Seite 489 - 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 490 - 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 which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Seite 358 - British power supported them during the struggles of the latter part of the eighteenth and the early part of the nineteenth century.
Seite 265 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Seite 409 - In such a case it would be no violation of the principles on which private property is grounded, if the state should appropriate this increase of wealth, or part of it, as it arises. This would not properly be taking anything from anybody; it would merely be applying an accession of wealth, created by circumstances, to the benefit of society, instead of allowing it to become an unearned appendage to the riches of a particular class.
Seite 491 - Smith wrote that the subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of government as nearly as possible In proportion to their respective abilities: that Is, In proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Seite 94 - Exactly the same considerations apply more or less clearly to every other article. A pound of bread per day supplied to a person saves him from starvation, and has the highest conceivable utility. A second pound per day has also no slight utility; it keeps him in a state of comparative plenty, though it be not altogether indispensable. A third pound would begin to be superfluous. It is clear, then, that utility is not proportional to commodity : the very same articles vary in utility according as...
Seite 409 - The ordinary progress of a society which increases in wealth, is at all times tending to augment the incomes of landlords ; to give them both a greater amount and a greater proportion of the wealth of the community, independently of any trouble or outlay incurred by themselves. They grow richer, as it were in their sleep, without working, risking, or economizing.
Seite 502 - The distinguishing characteristic of the best tax is, not that it is most nearly proportioned to the means of individuals, but that it is easily assessed and collected, and is, at the same time, most conducive, all things considered, to the public interests.
Seite 303 - The elephant is reckoned the slowest breeder of all known animals, and I have taken some pains to estimate its probable minimum rate of natural increase; it will be safest to assume that it begins breeding when thirty years old: and goes on breeding till ninety years old, bringing forth six young in the interval, and surviving till one hundred years old: if this be so, after a period of from 740 to 750 years there would be nearly nineteen million elephants alive, descended from the first pair.