Manual of Social Science: Being a Condensation of the "Principles of Social Science" of H.C. Carey |
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... cent . on $ 375 an acre . If the product of an acre of wheat be twenty bushels , the saving is equal to the interest on $ 200 ; but if we take the more bulky products , -hay , potatoes , and turnips , -it amounts to thrice . that sum ...
... cent . on $ 375 an acre . If the product of an acre of wheat be twenty bushels , the saving is equal to the interest on $ 200 ; but if we take the more bulky products , -hay , potatoes , and turnips , -it amounts to thrice . that sum ...
Page 141
... cents . At the distance of 4 German , or 22 English miles , he can pay nothing for it , the cost of transportation being fully equal to its value . We see thus that the vicinity of the consumer is indis- pensable for enabling the ...
... cents . At the distance of 4 German , or 22 English miles , he can pay nothing for it , the cost of transportation being fully equal to its value . We see thus that the vicinity of the consumer is indis- pensable for enabling the ...
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... cent . We have here a state of things similar to that existing in Ireland , where absentees ' estates are managed by middlemen , who , having no interest * The total number imported into the British Islands in the West Indies cannot ...
... cent . We have here a state of things similar to that existing in Ireland , where absentees ' estates are managed by middlemen , who , having no interest * The total number imported into the British Islands in the West Indies cannot ...
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... cent .; and as their vessels were to be exempted from all port charges , the system thus established was , practically , one of the most absolute freedom of trade . For more than a century , however , Turkey could still compete , to ...
... cent .; and as their vessels were to be exempted from all port charges , the system thus established was , practically , one of the most absolute freedom of trade . For more than a century , however , Turkey could still compete , to ...
Page 154
... cents ; while at Salonica , the shipping port of Thessaly , men could be hired at fifty cents a week . Commerce had ceased to exist , and the value of man , as well as the utility of the earth , had almost disap- peared ; while the ...
... cents ; while at Salonica , the shipping port of Thessaly , men could be hired at fifty cents a week . Commerce had ceased to exist , and the value of man , as well as the utility of the earth , had almost disap- peared ; while the ...
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Page 28 - The natural price of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
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