Some Aspects of the Inequality of Incomes in Modern CommunitiesG. Routledge, 1925 - 376 páginas |
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... necessary for earning a living , have they the time , or the power , or the spirit , to take stock of their condition and to ponder large projects of improvement . §3 . The majority of mankind have always been poor , 1 and nearly always ...
... necessary for earning a living , have they the time , or the power , or the spirit , to take stock of their condition and to ponder large projects of improvement . §3 . The majority of mankind have always been poor , 1 and nearly always ...
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... necessary before a point will be reached , at which an approximately equal distribution of income and a large general reduction of subjective costs will provide , according to modern standards , a reasonably high level of economic ...
... necessary before a point will be reached , at which an approximately equal distribution of income and a large general reduction of subjective costs will provide , according to modern standards , a reasonably high level of economic ...
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... necessary , if the doctrine is to cover incomes from property . Now , though it is clear enough that he who saves renders a service to society by adding to the stock of existing capital and hence to society's productive power , it is by ...
... necessary , if the doctrine is to cover incomes from property . Now , though it is clear enough that he who saves renders a service to society by adding to the stock of existing capital and hence to society's productive power , it is by ...
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... these periods successively , but shall only be able to touch lightly on many important points , since it is necessary to be reasonably brief . CHAPTER II . FIRST PERIOD : BEFORE 1776 . §1 36 THE INEQUALITY OF INCOMES .
... these periods successively , but shall only be able to touch lightly on many important points , since it is necessary to be reasonably brief . CHAPTER II . FIRST PERIOD : BEFORE 1776 . §1 36 THE INEQUALITY OF INCOMES .
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... necessary device of economic analysis , but in the modern world they do not , with any approach to accuracy , indicate the sources of income of groups of persons wholly distinct from one another . §2 . Adam Smith's admission that a ...
... necessary device of economic analysis , but in the modern world they do not , with any approach to accuracy , indicate the sources of income of groups of persons wholly distinct from one another . §2 . Adam Smith's admission that a ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
¹ Compare absolute share Adam Smith aggregate amount arc elasticity argument capital causes changes chapter civil rights classes cloth Demy 8vo discussion distribution of income doctrine Econ economic welfare economists effects elasticity of demand elasticity of supply equal fact factors of production freedom of bequest gifts inter vivos greater Ibid important income from civil income from property increase individual industry inequality of incomes inheritance tax inherited property inherited wealth interest intestacy intestate succession inventions Jevons labour land law of inheritance law of legitim less Lorenz curve means measure modern communities occupations owners P. S. King persons Political Economy practical primogeniture private gifts Professor Cannan Professor Pigou proportionate additions regards relative mean difference relative share rent Ricardo Rignano principle saving SIDNEY WEBB social Socialists statistics taxation tend theory of distribution tion total income transfers various wages Wealth and Welfare workers
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Página 42 - 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 43 - They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants...
Página 63 - The principle of private property has never yet had a fair trial in any country; and less so, perhaps, in this country than in some others.
Página 88 - When at length a true system of Economics comes to be established, it will be seen that that able but wrong-headed man, David Ricardo, shunted the car of Economic science on to a wrong line, a line, however, on which it was further urged towards confusion by his equally able and wrong-headed admirer John Stuart Mill.
Página 42 - It comes from an order of men whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.
Página 40 - In every society the price of every commodity finally resolves itself into some one or other, or all of those three parts ; and in every improved society, all the three enter more or less, as component parts, into the price of the far greater part of commodities.
Página 52 - The produce of the earth — all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.
Página 63 - Private property, in every defence made of it, is supposed to mean, the guarantee to individuals, of the fruits of their own labor and abstinence. The guarantee to them of the fruits of the labor and abstinence of others, transmitted to them without any merit or exertion of their own...
Página 62 - If, therefore, the choice were to be made between Communism with all its chances, and the present state of society with all its sufferings and injustices; if the institution of private property...
Página 292 - State, shall be and remain a perpetual fund, the interest of which, together with all the rents of the unsold lands, and such other means as the Legislature may provide, shall be inviolably appropriated to the support of Common Schools throughout the State.