Principles of National EconomyGinn, 1921 - 773 páginas |
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... result of a long process of development from simpler beginnings . There is also a temp- tation to begin with a historical study of these simpler be- ginnings , but , because of lack of evidence , it is much harder to find out what ...
... result of a long process of development from simpler beginnings . There is also a temp- tation to begin with a historical study of these simpler be- ginnings , but , because of lack of evidence , it is much harder to find out what ...
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... result in wasted lives ; that is , if they enable men and 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 ...
... result in wasted lives ; that is , if they enable men and 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 ...
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... result of prosperity is to make people desire more expensive amusements as well as more costly goods . There is a tendency to multiply holidays , shorten the working day , the working week , or the working lifetime , and , in general ...
... result of prosperity is to make people desire more expensive amusements as well as more costly goods . There is a tendency to multiply holidays , shorten the working day , the working week , or the working lifetime , and , in general ...
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... result of that rivalry ; the country is better fed and everyone is better off , except possibly the one who is beaten , and even he may very likely be better off than he would have been if he had not competed at all . When two farmers ...
... result of that rivalry ; the country is better fed and everyone is better off , except possibly the one who is beaten , and even he may very likely be better off than he would have been if he had not competed at all . When two farmers ...
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... result from many forms of persuasive conflict have so impressed certain sensitive spirits as to cause them to revolt against the very idea of competition in any form . Such people ought never to play croquet , because there is competi ...
... result from many forms of persuasive conflict have so impressed certain sensitive spirits as to cause them to revolt against the very idea of competition in any form . Such people ought never to play croquet , because there is competi ...
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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.