Principles of social science, Volume 3J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1859 - Economics |
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... India , with her hundred millions of people , with France and her thirty - six millions or Carolina with Massachusetts . - - ―― Production consists in the direction of the natural forces to the service of man . The more they are so ...
... India , with her hundred millions of people , with France and her thirty - six millions or Carolina with Massachusetts . - - ―― Production consists in the direction of the natural forces to the service of man . The more they are so ...
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... India , and Jamaica ; while wealth and freedom advance as stead- ily in those in which it declines , as in France , Denmark , and Northern Germany . The men who traffic and transport make no addition to the quantity of commodities to be ...
... India , and Jamaica ; while wealth and freedom advance as stead- ily in those in which it declines , as in France , Denmark , and Northern Germany . The men who traffic and transport make no addition to the quantity of commodities to be ...
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... India , in Portugal and Turkey , and in all countries in which , from any cause , the plough and the loom are prevented from taking their natural places by each other . Man seeks com- merce , which is but another word for association ...
... India , in Portugal and Turkey , and in all countries in which , from any cause , the plough and the loom are prevented from taking their natural places by each other . Man seeks com- merce , which is but another word for association ...
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... India there is no demand for labor , and her people gladly sell themselves to slavery in the Mauritius . Ireland presents a scene of constant waste of labor - power- its effects exhibiting themselves in the incessant wanderings of her ...
... India there is no demand for labor , and her people gladly sell themselves to slavery in the Mauritius . Ireland presents a scene of constant waste of labor - power- its effects exhibiting themselves in the incessant wanderings of her ...
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... and an increase in the value of all previous accumulations ; as is shown in Turkey , Persia , and India , and all other declining communities of the world . VOL . III.- 4 - - а § 2. What , however , is capital ? Seeking OF ACCUMULATION .
... and an increase in the value of all previous accumulations ; as is shown in Turkey , Persia , and India , and all other declining communities of the world . VOL . III.- 4 - - а § 2. What , however , is capital ? Seeking OF ACCUMULATION .
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accumulation Adam Smith agriculture amount capital capitalist cent century cloth combination command commerce competition consequence constant increase consumer consumption cotton cultivation decline demand diminishing diminution direct earth economy Edinburgh Review effect effort employment enabled England Europe existence fact faculties finished commodities fixed property force France freedom gradually greater growing growth of wealth human improvement India indirect taxation Ireland J. S. MILL Jamaica land and labor latter less look manufactures movable nations nature nature's services necessity obtain owner perfect poorer portion Portugal potential energy power of association profits proportion borne proprietors purchase quantity rapidity of circulation rate of profit ratio raw materials reader rent result return to labor Ricardo Russia slave slavery societary society Statute of Laborers steadily supply taxation taxes tendency tends tion trade Turkey wages waste Wealth of Nations wheat
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Page 175 - The school-boy whips his taxed top — the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; — and the dying Englishman pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent.
Page 175 - ... pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health, — on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal, — on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice, — on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribbons of the bride, — at bed or board, couchant or levant, — we must pay.
Page 249 - It is difficult at this day to realize the state of public opinion in relation to that unfortunate race which prevailed in the civilized and enlightened portions of the world at the time of the Declaration of Independence and when the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted.
Page 414 - But it cannot be expected that individuals should, at their own risk, or rather to their certain loss, introduce a new manufacture, and bear the...
Page 159 - sacredness of property" is talked of, it should always be remembered, that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species. Its appropriation is wholly a question of general expediency. When private property in land is not expedient, it is unjust.
Page 126 - With every step in the progress of population, which shall oblige a country to have recourse to land of a worse quality, to enable it to raise its supply of food, rent, on all the more fertile land, will rise.
Page 144 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...
Page 414 - The superiority of one country over another in a branch of production, often arises only from having begun it sooner. There may be no inherent advantage on one part, or disadvantage on the other, but only a present superiority of acquired skill and experience. A country which has this skill and experience yet to acquire, may in other respects be better adapted to the production than those which were earlier in the field...
Page 60 - No regulation of commerce can increase the quantity of industry in any society beyond what its capital can maintain. It can only divert a part of it into a direction into which it might not otherwise have gone; and it is by no means certain that this artificial direction is likely to be more advantageous to the society than that into which it would have gone of its own accord.
Page 350 - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes.