The Principles of Political Economy: With Some Inquiries Respecting Their Application and a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Science |
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... regulation which appears , on a careful inquiry , to be adverse to the increase of public wealth and happiness . Unless he do ... regulations as may appear ( whether directly or indirectly is immaterial ) to influence the production and ...
... regulation which appears , on a careful inquiry , to be adverse to the increase of public wealth and happiness . Unless he do ... regulations as may appear ( whether directly or indirectly is immaterial ) to influence the production and ...
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... Regulations as to Management - Size of Farms -Influence of the granting of the Elective Franchise to Tenants over Agriculture - Profits of Farmers , CHAPTER VII . Division of the Produce of Industry , under Deduction of Rent , between ...
... Regulations as to Management - Size of Farms -Influence of the granting of the Elective Franchise to Tenants over Agriculture - Profits of Farmers , CHAPTER VII . Division of the Produce of Industry , under Deduction of Rent , between ...
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... regulations affecting the freedom of industry ; the incidence and operation of taxes and loans , all depend on principles which it belongs to this science to ascertain and elucidate . — Neither is wealth necessary only because it ...
... regulations affecting the freedom of industry ; the incidence and operation of taxes and loans , all depend on principles which it belongs to this science to ascertain and elucidate . — Neither is wealth necessary only because it ...
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... regulations frequently enable individuals to accumulate ample fortunes , in- stead of this being , as is often contended , any proof of their real advantageousness , it is quite the reverse . It has been demonstrated over and over again ...
... regulations frequently enable individuals to accumulate ample fortunes , in- stead of this being , as is often contended , any proof of their real advantageousness , it is quite the reverse . It has been demonstrated over and over again ...
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... regulations restricting the freedom of industry , and secured the ascendency of the mercantile system . The feudal governments established in the countries that had formed the western division of the Roman empire , having speedily lost ...
... regulations restricting the freedom of industry , and secured the ascendency of the mercantile system . The feudal governments established in the countries that had formed the western division of the Roman empire , having speedily lost ...
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Page 411 - By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without.
Page 229 - It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men, quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too fast.
Page 583 - There is one sort of labour," says he, " which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed ; there is another which has no such effect. The former, as it produces a value, may be called productive ; the latter, unproductive labour.
Page 231 - The germs of existence contained in this earth, if they could freely develop themselves, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years. Necessity, that imperious, all-pervading law of nature, restrains them within the prescribed bounds.
Page 198 - Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for ; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what 'comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs. He supplies them abundantly with what they have occasion for, and they accommodate him as amply with what he has occasion for, and a general plenty diffuses itself through...
Page 431 - The liberal reward of labour," says Dr Smith, " as it encourages the propagation, so it increases the industry of the common people. The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives.