Public Economy for the United StatesA. S. Barnes & Company, 1848 - 536 páginas |
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Página 104
... rates of duty in the tariff of 1842 , a member from Tennessee moved an amendment , that no evidence should be received from manufacturers ! That is , that the only witnesses acquainted with the facts , should be ex- cluded from court ...
... rates of duty in the tariff of 1842 , a member from Tennessee moved an amendment , that no evidence should be received from manufacturers ! That is , that the only witnesses acquainted with the facts , should be ex- cluded from court ...
Página 111
... tariff were exposed by this committee was followed in two or three ... 1842 , Sir Robert Peel reduced the duty on about seven hundred and fifty ... tariff of 1842 was to reduce the duty on raw materials to about 5 per cent . , to ...
... tariff were exposed by this committee was followed in two or three ... 1842 , Sir Robert Peel reduced the duty on about seven hundred and fifty ... tariff of 1842 was to reduce the duty on raw materials to about 5 per cent . , to ...
Página 112
... tariff made in 1842 , and in the two years after these changes were effected : - Raw materials for manufacture .. Articles partially manufactured Articles wholly manufactured . Articles of food ( exclusive of corn or grain ) .. Articles ...
... tariff made in 1842 , and in the two years after these changes were effected : - Raw materials for manufacture .. Articles partially manufactured Articles wholly manufactured . Articles of food ( exclusive of corn or grain ) .. Articles ...
Página 236
... trade , in consequence of low duties , just before the tariff of 1842 came to the rescue , that in some parts of the interior of Pennsyl- vania , the people were obliged to divide bank - notes into halves , quarters , eighths , and so ...
... trade , in consequence of low duties , just before the tariff of 1842 came to the rescue , that in some parts of the interior of Pennsyl- vania , the people were obliged to divide bank - notes into halves , quarters , eighths , and so ...
Página 238
... tariff of 1842 , showing that the country is selling more than it buys , would gradually enlarge and fortify the basis and body of the currency . It could neither fail , nor be insufficient , nor unsound , any more than a private ...
... tariff of 1842 , showing that the country is selling more than it buys , would gradually enlarge and fortify the basis and body of the currency . It could neither fail , nor be insufficient , nor unsound , any more than a private ...
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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...