Political EconomyAmerican Book Company, 1886 - 134 Seiten |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 6-10 von 21
Seite 23
... hand , is no immediate cause of pleasure , but it cheapens goods by enabling them to be carried more easily : it allows people to live in the country , instead of the crowded town , or it carries them on pleasant and wholesome ...
... hand , is no immediate cause of pleasure , but it cheapens goods by enabling them to be carried more easily : it allows people to live in the country , instead of the crowded town , or it carries them on pleasant and wholesome ...
Seite 27
... hand , they must go at once and get it in the best way they can , for fear of starving . They must grub up roots , or gather grass seeds , or catch wild animals - if they can . When working in this way , they usually spend a great deal ...
... hand , they must go at once and get it in the best way they can , for fear of starving . They must grub up roots , or gather grass seeds , or catch wild animals - if they can . When working in this way , they usually spend a great deal ...
Seite 35
... hand from one kind of employment to another , and if this happens frequently , he is likely to become lazy . In the third place , Smith asserted that the division of labour leads to the invention of machines which abridge labour ...
... hand from one kind of employment to another , and if this happens frequently , he is likely to become lazy . In the third place , Smith asserted that the division of labour leads to the invention of machines which abridge labour ...
Seite 45
... hand , and can employ himself in making bows and arrows to facili- tate the capture of animals , he is investing capital in the bows and arrows . Whenever we work in this way for a future purpose , we are living on capital and investing ...
... hand , and can employ himself in making bows and arrows to facili- tate the capture of animals , he is investing capital in the bows and arrows . Whenever we work in this way for a future purpose , we are living on capital and investing ...
Seite 47
... hand ; a potato grower on one year's capital . On a modern farm in which many durable improvements are made , the quantity of capital required is very much greater . To employ men upon a railway requires immense capital , because so ...
... hand ; a potato grower on one year's capital . On a modern farm in which many durable improvements are made , the quantity of capital required is very much greater . To employ men upon a railway requires immense capital , because so ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adam Smith advantage APPLETON arises BALFOUR STEWART banker become beef benefit better bubble called capitalist carry cent cheaply circulating capital clothes coal coins collapse commodity corn cost cotton difficult division of labour earn employed employers employment England English English Language exchange factory fallacy farm farmer give gold increase Indirect Taxes invention iron Iron puddlers JAMES JOHONNOT John Smith kind land laws of supply less limited in supply live machinery machines manage means ment metal paid payment pearls peasant person plenty political economy poor pounds Primer produce profits quantity railways rate of interest rate of wages Reader receive rent requisites of production rich sell shares shillings silver slavery sometimes spend strike supply and demand tenant things trade trades-unions usually utility valuable wealth wine workmen
Beliebte Passagen
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.