Principles of National EconomyGinn, 1921 - 773 páginas |
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... PROPORTIONS 471 XXXIV . THE PROBLEM OF DISTRIBUTION 484 XXXV . WHAT DETERMINES THE RATE OF WAGES ? , 494 XXXVI . THE ORGANIZATION OF LABORERS 506 XXXVII . THe Rent of LanD 515 XXXVIII . THE DESIRABILITY OF CAPITAL AND ITS RELATION TO ...
... PROPORTIONS 471 XXXIV . THE PROBLEM OF DISTRIBUTION 484 XXXV . WHAT DETERMINES THE RATE OF WAGES ? , 494 XXXVI . THE ORGANIZATION OF LABORERS 506 XXXVII . THe Rent of LanD 515 XXXVIII . THE DESIRABILITY OF CAPITAL AND ITS RELATION TO ...
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... proportions in every individual case . It is probably better economically that they should be thus mixed and that no one kind of desire should exclude or predominate over the others . When this happens we are likely to have an ...
... proportions in every individual case . It is probably better economically that they should be thus mixed and that no one kind of desire should exclude or predominate over the others . When this happens we are likely to have an ...
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... proportion as more air could be produced ; mankind would be injured in proportion as air was wasted or destroyed . While , therefore , we can say that air is a necessity in a certain absolute sense , yet in a practical eco- nomic sense ...
... proportion as more air could be produced ; mankind would be injured in proportion as air was wasted or destroyed . While , therefore , we can say that air is a necessity in a certain absolute sense , yet in a practical eco- nomic sense ...
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... women who would other- wise be productive and useful to live in idleness and luxury . The smaller the proportion of the people who live by means of the uneconomical methods the more prosperous the nation is likely ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES 49.
... women who would other- wise be productive and useful to live in idleness and luxury . The smaller the proportion of the people who live by means of the uneconomical methods the more prosperous the nation is likely ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES 49.
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... proportion as he himself prospers , has at least one of the conditions of general prosperity . If each one is capable and well trained , so that he can give efficient service ( that is , if he contributes largely to the prosper- ity and ...
... proportion as he himself prospers , has at least one of the conditions of general prosperity . If each one is capable and well trained , so that he can give efficient service ( that is , if he contributes largely to the prosper- ity and ...
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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.