Economics: Principles and ProblemsThomas Y. Crowell Company, 1926 - 799 páginas |
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... Savings - Share of National Income Going to Interest - Share of the National Income Saved Annually . CHAPTER XVI PROBLEMS OF CAPITAL AND INTEREST . The Overhead Burden of Capital Equipment - Effect of a Different Distribution of Income ...
... Savings - Share of National Income Going to Interest - Share of the National Income Saved Annually . CHAPTER XVI PROBLEMS OF CAPITAL AND INTEREST . The Overhead Burden of Capital Equipment - Effect of a Different Distribution of Income ...
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... saving and accumulating farm equipment . Property took form in the ownership of fields , animals , and products . The act of settling down meant more peace and less war , more production and less exploitation , and by creating the ...
... saving and accumulating farm equipment . Property took form in the ownership of fields , animals , and products . The act of settling down meant more peace and less war , more production and less exploitation , and by creating the ...
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... savings in advertising and financing , through intensive sales effort . Economic Significance of Power . - In 1924 , the energy contributed to production by firewood , work animals , water power , coal , oil , and natural gas amounted ...
... savings in advertising and financing , through intensive sales effort . Economic Significance of Power . - In 1924 , the energy contributed to production by firewood , work animals , water power , coal , oil , and natural gas amounted ...
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... Savings Taxes Food Approximate Percentage Each Class of Articles is of Total National Consumption 12 to 20 % 8 to 12 " 25 to 30 " Clothing Shelter Furniture and furnishings Fuel and light Tobacco Ice cream , beverages Candy and chewing ...
... Savings Taxes Food Approximate Percentage Each Class of Articles is of Total National Consumption 12 to 20 % 8 to 12 " 25 to 30 " Clothing Shelter Furniture and furnishings Fuel and light Tobacco Ice cream , beverages Candy and chewing ...
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... savings and to find people willing to invest capital in additional factories takes time . Consequently , the supply of pro- ductive equipment is fixed over short periods of time . An increased demand would encounter a shortage of ...
... savings and to find people willing to invest capital in additional factories takes time . Consequently , the supply of pro- ductive equipment is fixed over short periods of time . An increased demand would encounter a shortage of ...
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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...