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... Influence upon Village Life Macgregor , Prof. D. H. , Sanctions for Discount Policy Meredith , Prof. H. O. , The Irish Fiscal Inquiry Moreland , W. H. , Economic Conditions in Mogul India Robertson , D. H. , Note on the Real Ratio of ...
... Influence upon Village Life Macgregor , Prof. D. H. , Sanctions for Discount Policy Meredith , Prof. H. O. , The Irish Fiscal Inquiry Moreland , W. H. , Economic Conditions in Mogul India Robertson , D. H. , Note on the Real Ratio of ...
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... influence , of the pre - war ratios that they superseded . In this dislocation of the pre - war relations between the wages of different classes of work - people is to be found the explanation of a large part of the discontent that has ...
... influence , of the pre - war ratios that they superseded . In this dislocation of the pre - war relations between the wages of different classes of work - people is to be found the explanation of a large part of the discontent that has ...
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... influenced by the system of pre - war relations ; progress towards adjusting wages to a commercial basis outrages his sense of equity wherever that adjustment has meant a reduction in the scale . Hence there is no finality about these ...
... influenced by the system of pre - war relations ; progress towards adjusting wages to a commercial basis outrages his sense of equity wherever that adjustment has meant a reduction in the scale . Hence there is no finality about these ...
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... influence of the second set of changes - changes in organisation . It will be generally admitted that wage - rates are much influenced by trade union organisation and other methods of collective bargaining . An organised trade is likely ...
... influence of the second set of changes - changes in organisation . It will be generally admitted that wage - rates are much influenced by trade union organisation and other methods of collective bargaining . An organised trade is likely ...
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... influence they seemed to have on wages , if skill had not been backed by organ- isation . To - day the inequalities in organisation have been largely redressed , and it is unlikely that the disparity of earnings between so - called ...
... influence they seemed to have on wages , if skill had not been backed by organ- isation . To - day the inequalities in organisation have been largely redressed , and it is unlikely that the disparity of earnings between so - called ...
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Página 536 - Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production ; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Página 512 - Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally or, rather, necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society.
Página 631 - COMMERCE. 8vo. 10s. net. ELEMENTS OF ECONOMICS OF INDUSTRY. Being the first volume of "Elements of Economics.
Página 518 - ... of carrying it on, until the producers have been educated up to the level of those with whom the processes are traditional. A protecting duty, continued for a reasonable time, will sometimes be the least inconvenient mode in which the nation can tax itself for the support of such an experiment.
Página 342 - engine of analysis . . . machinery of universal application in the discovery of a certain class of truths . . . not a body of concrete truth, but an engine for the discovery of concrete truth.
Página 328 - Thiinen, I was led to attach great importance to the fact that our observations of nature, in the moral as in the physical world relate not so much to aggregate quantities as to increments of quantities, and that in particular the demand for a thing is a continuous function, of which the "marginal" increment is, in stable equilibrium, balanced against the corresponding increment of its cost.
Página 75 - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.
Página 535 - In every country it always is and must be the interest of the great body of the people to buy whatever they want of those who sell it cheapest. The proposition is so very manifest, that it seems ridiculous to take any pains to prove it ; nor could it ever have been called in question, had not the interested sophistry of merchants and manufacturers confounded the common sense of mankind. Their interest is, in this respect, directly opposite to that of the great body of the people.
Página 107 - But there is no more complete fallacy than this. What people call applied science is nothing but the application of pure science to particular classes of problems. It consists of deductions from those general principles, established by reasoning and observation, which constitute pure science. No one can safely make these deductions until he has a firm grasp of the principles ; and he can obtain that grasp only by personal experience of the operations of observation and of reasoning on which they...
Página 529 - If the spirit of industry be preserved, it may easily be diverted from one branch to another ; and the manufacturers of wool, for instance, be employed in linen, silk, iron, or any other commodities for which there appears to be a demand.