The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 261852 |
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... less sum of money than ten years be- fore , yet that less money pays higher cash wages to labor , and higher profits to capital . Prof. Gordon , of the University of Glasgow , says , in the Art Journal , for October , " An experienced ...
... less sum of money than ten years be- fore , yet that less money pays higher cash wages to labor , and higher profits to capital . Prof. Gordon , of the University of Glasgow , says , in the Art Journal , for October , " An experienced ...
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... less share of the pro- duce , yet this less share , from the very great increase of the produce , yields a larger quantity . " We shall have occasion to use this statement , which Mr. Malthus made upon the authority of the returns ...
... less share of the pro- duce , yet this less share , from the very great increase of the produce , yields a larger quantity . " We shall have occasion to use this statement , which Mr. Malthus made upon the authority of the returns ...
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... less capital employed and less value produced , the proportion amounted to one - fourth , one - third , or even two - fifths . " In the same para- graph he says that " though the landlord has a less share of the whole pro- duce , yet this ...
... less capital employed and less value produced , the proportion amounted to one - fourth , one - third , or even two - fifths . " In the same para- graph he says that " though the landlord has a less share of the whole pro- duce , yet this ...
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... less proportionate share , to the capitalist . 3d . To leave a surplus of advantage which accrues to the benefit of the entire body of consumers in the diminished cost of products . The course of this world is so ordered that no man can ...
... less proportionate share , to the capitalist . 3d . To leave a surplus of advantage which accrues to the benefit of the entire body of consumers in the diminished cost of products . The course of this world is so ordered that no man can ...
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... less in degree , on the existing supply of books . And what is capital but the sum total of commodities , some one or more of which is every day losing a part of its value by reason of the introduction of improved processes and ...
... less in degree , on the existing supply of books . And what is capital but the sum total of commodities , some one or more of which is every day losing a part of its value by reason of the introduction of improved processes and ...
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Page 25 - of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish ; and also
Page 25 - that the citizens of the United States should have the right " to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish ; and also
Page 569 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunt in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or
Page 25 - or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose, with the inhabitant«, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Page 455 - As the colony increases, the profits of stock gradually diminish. When the most fertile and best situated lands have been all occupied, less profit can be made by the cultivation of what is inferior, both in soil and situation, and less interest can be afforded for the stock which is so employed.
Page 42 - they can earn in four days what will maintain them through the week, will be idle the other three. This, however, is by no means the case with the greater part. Workmen, on the contrary, when they are liberally paid by the piece, are very apt to over-work themselves, and to ruin their health and constitution in a few years."— Wealth
Page 590 - and mills or thousandths."* That the " dollars or units each be of the value of a Spanish milled dollar, as the same is now current, and to contain three hundred and seventy-one grains and four-sixteenths parts of a grain of pure, or four hundred and sixteen grains of standard