Principles of social science, Volume 3J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1859 - Economics |
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... fixed - that decline being an evidence of advancing civilization . Com- merce grows with this change of proportions 48 50 51 24. Centralization increases the proportion of movable capital — that change being an evidence of declining ...
... fixed - that decline being an evidence of advancing civilization . Com- merce grows with this change of proportions 48 50 51 24. Centralization increases the proportion of movable capital — that change being an evidence of declining ...
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... fixed capital 75 ...... ......... 3. Circulation increases in its rapidity , in the direct ratio of the tendency of capital to become fixed and immovable . Historic illustrations 78 24. The more rapid the circulation , the greater the ...
... fixed capital 75 ...... ......... 3. Circulation increases in its rapidity , in the direct ratio of the tendency of capital to become fixed and immovable . Historic illustrations 78 24. The more rapid the circulation , the greater the ...
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... fixed property increases in the proportions borne by it to that which is movable ... 173 3. Commerce tends to become more free , as the proportion of movable to fixed property declines . Phenomena presented for consideration by France ...
... fixed property increases in the proportions borne by it to that which is movable ... 173 3. Commerce tends to become more free , as the proportion of movable to fixed property declines . Phenomena presented for consideration by France ...
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... fixed at a penny per day , payable either in money or in wheat at 10d . a bushel , at the option of their employers . The effect of thus granting an option may be readily understood , when it is known that , during the fourteenth ...
... fixed at a penny per day , payable either in money or in wheat at 10d . a bushel , at the option of their employers . The effect of thus granting an option may be readily understood , when it is known that , during the fourteenth ...
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... fixed at 1s . per yard . Eden , from whose work these facts are drawn , says that we may form an idea of the bad husbandry of the period , and of the " consequent misery of the laborers , " from considering the diminutive produce of ara ...
... fixed at 1s . per yard . Eden , from whose work these facts are drawn , says that we may form an idea of the bad husbandry of the period , and of the " consequent misery of the laborers , " from considering the diminutive produce of ara ...
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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.