Economics: Principles and ProblemsThomas Y. Crowell Company, 1926 - 799 páginas |
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... possible the release of scientific imagination and inventive power which underlies modern economic society . The Primitive Technology of Production . - For upwards of three hundred to four hundred thousand years , making a living was on ...
... possible the release of scientific imagination and inventive power which underlies modern economic society . The Primitive Technology of Production . - For upwards of three hundred to four hundred thousand years , making a living was on ...
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... possible . This philosophy was in part related to the desire of governments for a stock of ready money wherewith to further dynastic ambitions or to conduct their recurrent wars . Commerce had given rise to new sources of state revenue ...
... possible . This philosophy was in part related to the desire of governments for a stock of ready money wherewith to further dynastic ambitions or to conduct their recurrent wars . Commerce had given rise to new sources of state revenue ...
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... possible a complete tech- nique of transportation . The Industrial Revolution therefore rested originally upon inven- tions in three great fields , -manufacturing , power , and transportation . Machines , engines , and railroads were ...
... possible a complete tech- nique of transportation . The Industrial Revolution therefore rested originally upon inven- tions in three great fields , -manufacturing , power , and transportation . Machines , engines , and railroads were ...
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... possible in part from the wider adoption of inventions made prior to 1860 and in part from continuous new inventions of mechanics and science . ( a ) Manufactures . Since the Civil War the United States has become the leading nation of ...
... possible in part from the wider adoption of inventions made prior to 1860 and in part from continuous new inventions of mechanics and science . ( a ) Manufactures . Since the Civil War the United States has become the leading nation of ...
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... possible to consider production in terms of money as a measure of wealth in terms of concrete goods . Endless obscurity and confusion result from the loose and careless assumption that money wealth is material wealth . There is a chasm ...
... possible to consider production in terms of money as a measure of wealth in terms of concrete goods . Endless obscurity and confusion result from the loose and careless assumption that money wealth is material wealth . There is a chasm ...
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Economics: Principles and Problems. 2d Ed., Rev. and Reset Lionel Danforth Edie Visualização de excertos - 1932 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
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...