Public Economy for the United StatesA. S. Barnes & Company, 1848 - 536 páginas |
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... Present Time . CHAPTER IV . - FREE TRADE A LICENSE FOR DEPREDATION ON THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS .. ...... PAGE 69 This a New Position . - It is based on the Principle of Anarchy - The Essence of Free Trade is a Plea for no Law over an ...
... Present Time . CHAPTER IV . - FREE TRADE A LICENSE FOR DEPREDATION ON THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS .. ...... PAGE 69 This a New Position . - It is based on the Principle of Anarchy - The Essence of Free Trade is a Plea for no Law over an ...
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... present Time exposed to the Charge of Political Partisan- ship . He is obliged to examine public Measures as Facts . - The Principles of the " Revenue Standard " examined . - A Tariff not a Revenue Measure , except inciden- tally . The ...
... present Time exposed to the Charge of Political Partisan- ship . He is obliged to examine public Measures as Facts . - The Principles of the " Revenue Standard " examined . - A Tariff not a Revenue Measure , except inciden- tally . The ...
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... present importance of his subject , the author has de- sired to be understood and appreciated Now- at first sight ; and he has , therefore , studied not to make statements which would re- quire study in others . He does not believe in ...
... present importance of his subject , the author has de- sired to be understood and appreciated Now- at first sight ; and he has , therefore , studied not to make statements which would re- quire study in others . He does not believe in ...
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... present them as new . Many of them , as will be seen , involve fundamental and all - pervading principles , such as have not , heretofore , been incorporated in works of public economy . The announcement of a few of the most prominent ...
... present them as new . Many of them , as will be seen , involve fundamental and all - pervading principles , such as have not , heretofore , been incorporated in works of public economy . The announcement of a few of the most prominent ...
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... present we do not know how to improve it . We have tried our best to tolerate the introduction of the term , science , into this definition , as the substantive part of it , in accordance with general usage , such as the science of ...
... present we do not know how to improve it . We have tried our best to tolerate the introduction of the term , science , into this definition , as the substantive part of it , in accordance with general usage , such as the science of ...
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Página 312 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 41 - If two or more instances in which the phenomenon occurs have only one circumstance in common, while two or more instances in which it does not occur have nothing in common save the absence of that circumstance, the circumstance in which alone the two sets of instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.
Página 136 - Under circumstances giving a powerful impulse to manufacturing industry, it has made among us a progress, and exhibited an efficiency, which justify the belief, that with a protection not more than is due...
Página 152 - But in different stages of society, the proportions of the whole produce of the earth which will be allotted to each of these classes, under the names of rent, profit, and wages...
Página 279 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbour, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.
Página 41 - If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former; the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.
Página 41 - If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.
Página 161 - REST, considered as the price paid for the use of land, is naturally the highest which the tenant can afford to pay in the actual circumstances of the land. In adjusting the terms of the lease, the landlord endeavours to leave him no greater share of the produce than what is sufficient to keep up the stock from which he furnishes the seed, pays the labour, and purchases and maintains the cattle, and other instruments of husbandry, together with the ordinary profits of farming stock in the neighbourhood.
Página 314 - There seem, however, to be two cases in which it will generally be advantageous to lay some burden upon foreign for the encouragement of domestic industry. The first is, when some particular sort of industry is necessary for the defence of the country.
Página 312 - But the annual revenue of every society is always precisely equal to the exchangeable value of the whole annual produce of its industry, or rather is precisely the same thing with that exchangeable value. As every individual, therefore, endeavours as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestic industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value ; every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as...