Economics: Principles and ProblemsThomas Y. Crowell Company, 1926 - 799 páginas |
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... cent of the total popu- lation , but in some southern states he makes up a majority of the population . Southern agriculture is organized around the labor per- formed by the negro population . Within the last two decades there has been ...
... cent of the total popu- lation , but in some southern states he makes up a majority of the population . Southern agriculture is organized around the labor per- formed by the negro population . Within the last two decades there has been ...
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... cent per annum . Moreover , the increase of agricultural output is much less influenced by the ups and downs of the ... cent amounts to an average increase over the 25 years of more than 8 per cent per annum . Mining output has run far ...
... cent per annum . Moreover , the increase of agricultural output is much less influenced by the ups and downs of the ... cent amounts to an average increase over the 25 years of more than 8 per cent per annum . Mining output has run far ...
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... cent , during the 25 - year period . At this rate , physical output per capita would double in about 70 to 80 years . Or , to express the same fact from a different viewpoint , the average rate of increase in per capita production is ...
... cent , during the 25 - year period . At this rate , physical output per capita would double in about 70 to 80 years . Or , to express the same fact from a different viewpoint , the average rate of increase in per capita production is ...
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... cent of the time . Faulty planning of work by management caused a loss of one - third during the normal operation of clothing factories . Improper organization of the men's ready - made clothing industry accounted for a loss of 40 per cent ...
... cent of the time . Faulty planning of work by management caused a loss of one - third during the normal operation of clothing factories . Improper organization of the men's ready - made clothing industry accounted for a loss of 40 per cent ...
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... cent , wood 6 per cent , water 4 per cent , and work animals 3 per cent . Water and coal in turn give rise to electrical power , which in 1924 amounted to more than 55 per cent of the total power used by manufacture . The tendency has ...
... cent , wood 6 per cent , water 4 per cent , and work animals 3 per cent . Water and coal in turn give rise to electrical power , which in 1924 amounted to more than 55 per cent of the total power used by manufacture . The tendency has ...
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Economics: Principles and Problems. 2d Ed., Rev. and Reset Lionel Danforth Edie Visualização de excertos - 1932 |
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agriculture American amount average balance bank credit business cycle capital cent changes Chapter circulation combination commercial commodities competition consumers consumption coöperation corporation cost currency dollars earnings economic economic rent efficiency employers exchange exports fact factors farm farmer Federal Reserve banks Federal Reserve System fiat money finance fluctuations foreign gold standard important income increase index number individual industry inequalities inflation interest rates investment issue labor labor unions land loans machinery manufacture marginal marginal utility measure ment method modern monopoly movements normal organization output ownership paper money payments pecuniary period population price level principle problem production profit prosperity purchasing power quantity railroads ratio rise savings scarcity securities silver social stability Statistics store of value supply and demand tariff taxation tend theory tion trade unions United utility value theory volume wage wealth workers
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Página 751 - Commission may from time to time designate) will, under honest, efficient and economical management and reasonable expenditures for maintenance of way, structures and equipment, earn an aggregate annual net railway operating income equal, as nearly as may be, to a fair return upon the aggregate value of the railway property of such carriers held for and used in the service of transportation...
Página 146 - ... 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. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest, he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.
Página 716 - 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 730 - Gross income" includes gains, profits, and income derived from salaries, wages, or compensation for personal service, of whatever kind and in whatever form paid, or from professions, vocations, trades, businesses, commerce, or sales, or dealings in property, whether real or personal, growing out of the ownership or use of or interest in such property...
Página 146 - 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 the 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 146 - 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 289 - The new rich of the nineteenth century were not brought up to large expenditures, and preferred the power which investment gave them to the pleasures of immediate consumption. In fact, it was precisely the inequality of the distribution of wealth...
Página 351 - The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
Página 387 - The scale of wages paid for similar kinds of work in other industries; (2) The relation between wages and the cost of living...
Página 353 - What, therefore, the wage-labourer appropriates by means of his labour, merely suffices to prolong and reproduce a bare existence. We by no means intend to abolish this personal appropriation of the products of...