Public Economy for the United StatesA. S. Barnes & Company, 1848 - 536 páginas |
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... Reasons for the lim ited Scope of this Work - Reasons for changing the Name of the General Subject.— Politics and Political Economy . - The Comprehensiveness of this Work , and the Unity of its Plan . CHAPTER II . - THE NEW POINTS OF ...
... Reasons for the lim ited Scope of this Work - Reasons for changing the Name of the General Subject.— Politics and Political Economy . - The Comprehensiveness of this Work , and the Unity of its Plan . CHAPTER II . - THE NEW POINTS OF ...
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... Reasons for It - The Free Trade of Adam Smith not the Free Trade of the 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 ...
... Reasons for It - The Free Trade of Adam Smith not the Free Trade of the 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 ...
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... Reason for giving it an early Place in this Work - What is Meant by it . - Definition of Commercial Rights and Values.- Liberty not synonymous with Freedom . - Rights as distinguished from Liberty - Free- dom , not an Abstraction , but ...
... Reason for giving it an early Place in this Work - What is Meant by it . - Definition of Commercial Rights and Values.- Liberty not synonymous with Freedom . - Rights as distinguished from Liberty - Free- dom , not an Abstraction , but ...
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... Reasons of the Facts . - The great Misfor- tune of conceding , in the Technical Use of Language , that Protective Duties are Taxes . CHAPTER XXIV . - AN AMERICAN PROTECTIVE SYSTEM A RESCUE FROM FOR- EIGN TAXATION ...
... Reasons of the Facts . - The great Misfor- tune of conceding , in the Technical Use of Language , that Protective Duties are Taxes . CHAPTER XXIV . - AN AMERICAN PROTECTIVE SYSTEM A RESCUE FROM FOR- EIGN TAXATION ...
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... Reasons for the limited Scope of this Work - Reasons for changing the name of the General Subject - Politics and Political Economy . - The Comprehensiveness of this Work , and the Unity of its Plan . Ir will be seen that the author of ...
... Reasons for the limited Scope of this Work - Reasons for changing the name of the General Subject - Politics and Political Economy . - The Comprehensiveness of this Work , and the Unity of its Plan . Ir will be seen that the author 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...