Principles of National EconomyGinn, 1921 - 773 páginas |
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... objects which one might purchase with one's limited money or purchasing power . The problem is always how to use one's time , one's working power , or one's wealth in such a way as to accomplish the most in the promotion of one's ...
... objects which one might purchase with one's limited money or purchasing power . The problem is always how to use one's time , one's working power , or one's wealth in such a way as to accomplish the most in the promotion of one's ...
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... object desired to satisfy everybody , no one is likely to bestir himself to try to produce more , even if he knew how to do so . If there is not enough of anything there is a motive for action looking to an increase of production , and ...
... object desired to satisfy everybody , no one is likely to bestir himself to try to produce more , even if he knew how to do so . If there is not enough of anything there is a motive for action looking to an increase of production , and ...
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... all my principal needs . But when it is spent in charity it may supply a vital need of someone else . If I were in exactly as great need as he of the objects which my last dollar would purchase , 22 PRINCIPLES OF NATIONAL ECONOMY.
... all my principal needs . But when it is spent in charity it may supply a vital need of someone else . If I were in exactly as great need as he of the objects which my last dollar would purchase , 22 PRINCIPLES OF NATIONAL ECONOMY.
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Thomas Nixon Carver. of the objects which my last dollar would purchase , and I then gave him my dollar , that would show that I appreciated his interest as highly as my own or even more highly than my own . If there are a number of ...
Thomas Nixon Carver. of the objects which my last dollar would purchase , and I then gave him my dollar , that would show that I appreciated his interest as highly as my own or even more highly than my own . If there are a number of ...
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... objects . If a desirable ob- ject is produced , not because the producer has a benevolent interest in the consumer but because he has a selfish interest in the price which he can get for it , it will do the consumer just as much good as ...
... objects . If a desirable ob- ject is produced , not because the producer has a benevolent interest in the consumer but because he has a selfish interest in the price which he can get for it , it will do the consumer just as much good as ...
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abundant Adam Smith advantage amount anarchism bank bargaining become better buyer called capital chapter cheap coin commodity competition compulsion consumers consumption coöperation cost crops cultivation currency demand desire division of labor dollar duction economic energy enterprise equal exchange fact factors factors of production farm farmer favor Federal Reserve notes give gold important income increase individual industry interest invest kind land large number law of value less liberalist luxuries marginal productivity material means ment methods nation nature necessary nitrogen owner person plow possession problem production profits proportion prosperity quantity question reason reduce rent result saving scarce scarcity sell single tax social society soil spend standard of living sumers supply surplus taxation things tion United unskilled labor utility wages waste water frame wealth wheat
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Página 582 - By necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without.
Página 623 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Página 110 - And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
Página 325 - Two men I honour, and no third. First, the toil-worn Craftsman that with earth-made Implement laboriously conquers the Earth, and makes her man's. Venerable to me is the hard Hand; crooked, coarse; wherein notwithstanding lies a cunning virtue, indefeasibly royal, as of the Sceptre of this Planet. Venerable too is the rugged face, all weather-tanned, besoiled, with its rude intelligence; for it is the face of a Man living manlike.
Página 85 - 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 110 - And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai ; unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
Página 726 - As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Página 110 - Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Página 325 - A second man I honour, and still more highly: Him who is seen toiling for the spiritually indispensable; not daily bread, but the bread of Life.
Página 168 - A great part of the machines made use of in those manufactures in which labor is most subdivided were originally the inventions of common workmen, who, being each of them employed in some very simple operation, naturally turned their thoughts towards finding out easier and readier methods of performing it.