Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, Volumen1C.C. Little & J. Brown, 1848 |
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... habits of the laboring people ; by § 1. Pernicious direction of public opinion on the subject of Population 445 2. Grounds for expecting improvement 449 454 education 380 4. and by large measures of immediate relief , through foreign ...
... habits of the laboring people ; by § 1. Pernicious direction of public opinion on the subject of Population 445 2. Grounds for expecting improvement 449 454 education 380 4. and by large measures of immediate relief , through foreign ...
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... habits of mankind is otherwise than difficult , and in general either painful or very slow , ) but it lies in what may be called the spontaneous course of events . The growth of the popula- tion of men and cattle began in time to press ...
... habits of mankind is otherwise than difficult , and in general either painful or very slow , ) but it lies in what may be called the spontaneous course of events . The growth of the popula- tion of men and cattle began in time to press ...
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... habits of so- ciety , and the little protection afforded by government , ren- dered indispensable to their safety . The greater stability , the fixity of personal position , which this state of society afforded , in comparison with the ...
... habits of so- ciety , and the little protection afforded by government , ren- dered indispensable to their safety . The greater stability , the fixity of personal position , which this state of society afforded , in comparison with the ...
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... habits . Large accumula- tions are continually made by the agents , stewards , and even domestic ser- vants , of improvident persons of fortune ; and they pay much higher prices for all purchases than people of careful habits , which ...
... habits . Large accumula- tions are continually made by the agents , stewards , and even domestic ser- vants , of improvident persons of fortune ; and they pay much higher prices for all purchases than people of careful habits , which ...
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... habit of thinking through the medium of only one set of technical phrases , and so little reason have studious men to value themselves on being exempt from the very same mental infirmities which beset the vulgar , that this simple ...
... habit of thinking through the medium of only one set of technical phrases , and so little reason have studious men to value themselves on being exempt from the very same mental infirmities which beset the vulgar , that this simple ...
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Adam Smith advantage agricultural amount applied capitalist causes circulating capital circumstances condition considerable consumed consumption coöperation cultivation degree demand desire of accumulation diminished division of labor duction effect employment England equivalent exertion exist expense farmer farms fixed capital Flanders flax France funds greater gross produce habits human hundred quarters improvement increase individual industry instruments kind labor employed laboring classes land landlord less limited machinery maize mankind manufacture manure materials means ment metayer mode natural agents necessary objects obtained occupation operations paid peasant persons plough political economy population portion possession principle productive consumers productive laborers productive power profit proportion proprietors purpose quantity quit-rent rate of profit remuneration render rent require saving society soil subsistence sufficient supply suppose surplus taxes things tion unless unproductive wages waste land wealth whole workmen
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Página 151 - is one on which I cannot help thinking that more stress is laid by him and others than it deserves. To do full justice to his opinion, I will quote his own exposition of it. " The advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly lost in passing from one
Página 271 - all from industry, or if there were any means of discriminating what is derived from each source, it not only would not be necessary, but it would be the * " Munificent bequests and donations for public purposes, whether charitable or educational, form a striking feature in the modern history of the United States, and especially of
Página 407 - or, as it is often expressed, on the proportion between population and capital. By population is here meant the number only of the laboring class, or rather of those who work for hire; and by capital, only circulating capital, and not even the whole of that, but the part which is expended in the direct purchase of labor.
Página 230 - with hands. The new mouths require as much food as the old ones, and the hands do not produce as much. If all instruments of production were held in joint property by the whole people, and the produce divided with perfect
Página 474 - The different governors of the universities before that time appear to have often granted licenses to their scholars to beg." § 4. The demand for literary labor has so greatly increased since Adam Smith wrote, while the provisions for eleemosynary education have nowhere been much added to, and in the countries which have experienced
Página 214 - labor, the produce is not increased in an equal degree ; doubling the labor does not double the produce ; or, to express the same thing in other words, every increase of produce is obtained by a more than proportional increase in the application of labor to the
Página 256 - the diffusion, instead of the concentration of wealth, to encourage the subdivision of the large masses, instead of striving to keep them together ; the principle of individual property would have been found to have no real connection with the physical and social evils which have made so many minds turn eagerly to any prospect of relief, however desperate.
Página 316 - his plot for mangel-wurzel, for hemp, and so on. He is his own master ; and he. and every member of his family, have the strongest motives to labor. You see the effect of this in that unremitting diligence which is beyond that of the whole world beside, and his economy which is still greater.
Página 407 - To this, however, must be added all funds which, without forming a part of capital, are paid in exchange for labor, such as the wages of soldiers, domestic servants, and all other unproductive laborers. There is, unfortunately, no mode of expressing by one familiar term, the aggregate of what may be called the wages-fund of a country
Página 251 - in this and most other, countries, have as little choice of occupation or freedom of locomotion, are practically as dependent on fixed rules and on the will of others, as they could be on any system short of actual slavery ; to say nothing of