Economics: Principles and ProblemsThomas Y. Crowell Company, 1926 - 799 páginas |
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... means of meeting those wants , between the dis- agreeableness of toil and the agreeableness of gratifying one's desires , between the pains of labor and effort and the pleasures of consumption . This subjective relation between ulterior ...
... means of meeting those wants , between the dis- agreeableness of toil and the agreeableness of gratifying one's desires , between the pains of labor and effort and the pleasures of consumption . This subjective relation between ulterior ...
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... means of locomotion and a market , almost at his own door , for nearly every citizen of the United States . " This vast system welded together the manufacturing and commercial East , the cotton and tobacco grow- ing South , and the food ...
... means of locomotion and a market , almost at his own door , for nearly every citizen of the United States . " This vast system welded together the manufacturing and commercial East , the cotton and tobacco grow- ing South , and the food ...
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... 1923 the United States had 15,000,000 tele- phones in use . The aeroplane has come into use as a means for quick 8 Railroads , Rates and Regulation , p . 35 . transportation of the mails . One indication of the importance 28 Introduction.
... 1923 the United States had 15,000,000 tele- phones in use . The aeroplane has come into use as a means for quick 8 Railroads , Rates and Regulation , p . 35 . transportation of the mails . One indication of the importance 28 Introduction.
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... means of material well being of the nation . The growth of transportation is greater than that of agriculture or manufacture , and about the same as that of mining . The average increase over the period was above 8 per cent per annum ...
... means of material well being of the nation . The growth of transportation is greater than that of agriculture or manufacture , and about the same as that of mining . The average increase over the period was above 8 per cent per annum ...
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... means of improving old machines and old processes . A single part to a locomotive may be the culmination of 10,000 prior improvements in that particular part . The object of research is to carry the improvements one step further . The ...
... means of improving old machines and old processes . A single part to a locomotive may be the culmination of 10,000 prior improvements in that particular part . The object of research is to carry the improvements one step further . The ...
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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...