Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy

John Stuart Mill

Longmans, Green and Company, 1885 - 591 páginas

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PRELIMINARY REMARKS	1

Differences of profits arising from the nature of the particular	3

Law of compulsory equal division of inheritances	4

BOOK I	6

Of the Requisites of Production 1 Requisites of production what	15

The function of labour defined	16

Does nature contribute more to the efficacy of labour in some occu pations than in others?	17

Of Labour as an Agent of Production 1 Labour employed either directly about the thing produced or in operations preparatory to its production	19

which are in some cases legal	213

would require as a condition legal measures for repression	219

The Remedies for Low Wages further	225

and by large measures of immediate relief through foreign	231

Wages of women why lower than those of men	242

General tendency of profits to an equality	248

Of Rent	255

BOOK III	264

Labour employed in producing subsistence for subsequent labour	20

in producing materials	21

or implements	22

in the protection of labour	23

in the transport and distribution of the produce	24

Labour which relates to human beings	25

Labour of invention and discovery	26

Labour agricultural manufacturing and commercial	27

Of Unproductive Labour 1 Labour does not produce objects but utilities	28

Productive labour is that which produces utilities fixed and em bodied in material objects	30

All other labour however useful is classed as unproductive	31

Productive and Unproductive Consumption	32

Labour for the supply of Productive Consumption and labour for the supply of Unproductive Consumption	33

Of Capital 1 Capital is wealth appropriated to reproductive employment	34

More capital devoted to production than actually employed in it	36

Examination of some cases illustrative of the idea of capital	37

Industry is limited by Capital	40

a 2	41

Capital is kept up not by preservation but by perpetual repro	46

Fallacy respecting Taxation	55

but this seldom if ever occurs	61

Of Production on a Large and Production	81

Advantages of the large system of production in manufactures	89

Of the Law of the Increase of Labour	96

Of the Law of the Increase of Production	108

Remedies when the limit to production is the weakness of	117

BOOK II	124

Should the right of bequest be limited and how?	138

Rights of property in abuses	144

Influence of custom on prices	147

Of Peasant Proprietors	155

4	161

6	167

in promoting forethought and selfcontrol	173

en the subdivision of land	180

Is its abolition desirable?	191

Ryot tenancy of India	197

Irish cottiers should be converted into peasant proprietors	199

Of Wages	207

Of Cost of Production in its relation to Value	274

except in so far as they vary from employment to employment	279

Of Rent in its Relation to Value	285

The theory of Value recapitulated in a series of propositions	292

The value of money in a state of freedom conforms to the value	304

the influence of Credit	316

5	322

Of an Inconvertible Paper Currency	328

creditors	334

Of a Measure of Value	341

The practical	364

1 Purposes for which money passes from country to country as	370

Of the Rate of Interest	385

The rate of interest determines the price of land and of securities	393

4	400

Should the issue of bank notes be confined to a single esta	406

The Law of Population	418

Influence of the Progress of Industry	424

Influence of the Progress of Industry	430

Fifth case all the three elements progressive	437

5	444

The future wellbeing of the labouring classes principally dependent	458

6	465

344	469

Competition not pernicious but useful and indispensable	476

Necessary and optional functions of government distinguished	482

The increase of the rent of land from natural causes a fit subject	492

4	498

Of Taxes on Commodities	504

and on imports	512

Comparison between Direct and Indirect	521

Is it desirable to defray extraordinary public expenses by loans?	528

The same subject continued	536

Partnerships with limited liability Chartered Companies	542

Laws relating to insolvency	548

Of the Grounds and Limits of the Laisserfaire	567

Laisserfaire the general rule	575

Cases in which public intervention may be necessary to give effect	581

5	589

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Página 483 - 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.

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Página 484 - Thirdly, by the forfeitures and other penalties which those unfortunate individuals incur who attempt unsuccessfully to evade the tax, it may frequently ruin them, and thereby put an end to the benefit which the community might have received from the employment of their capitals.

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Página 123 - The laws and conditions of the Production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them.

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Título	Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy
Autor	John Stuart Mill
Editor	Longmans, Green and Company, 1885
Procedencia del original	Universidad de Harvard
Digitalizado	2 Nov. 2006
Largo	591 páginas

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