Great Britain from Adam Smith to the Present Day: An Economic and Social SurveyLongmans, Green and Company, Limited, 1928 - 458 páginas "Selected reading": p. 443-444. |
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... labour , was admitted at a rate somewhat higher than the British preferential rate , but much lower than that on other foreign sugar . Peel refrained from lowering the duties on wine , brandy and fruits , in order to have the ...
... labour , was admitted at a rate somewhat higher than the British preferential rate , but much lower than that on other foreign sugar . Peel refrained from lowering the duties on wine , brandy and fruits , in order to have the ...
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... labour short- age was met by the supervised migration of Indian coolie labour . This began about 1840. It saved the West Indies ; and was of even greater importance in the nearer regions of Malaya , Mauritius and British East Africa ...
... labour short- age was met by the supervised migration of Indian coolie labour . This began about 1840. It saved the West Indies ; and was of even greater importance in the nearer regions of Malaya , Mauritius and British East Africa ...
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... labour politics , where even before the war over- crowding was very bad . In 1911 621 % of its population lived in one- or two - roomed houses as compared with 81 % for the towns of England and Wales . The Government began in 1919 with ...
... labour politics , where even before the war over- crowding was very bad . In 1911 621 % of its population lived in one- or two - roomed houses as compared with 81 % for the towns of England and Wales . The Government began in 1919 with ...
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... labour consented to dilution . When the war came to an end , there was much talk of reconstruction : could not the lessons of war be switched to the service of peace ? Were there not features of State control worth retaining ? However ...
... labour consented to dilution . When the war came to an end , there was much talk of reconstruction : could not the lessons of war be switched to the service of peace ? Were there not features of State control worth retaining ? However ...
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... labour . The great estates of this century were built up in large part from resources accumulated overseas . Until the industrial revolution brought fortunes from mining , they were only to be won by foreign trade or by ownership of ...
... labour . The great estates of this century were built up in large part from resources accumulated overseas . Until the industrial revolution brought fortunes from mining , they were only to be won by foreign trade or by ownership of ...
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18th century abolished Adam Smith agricultural amalgamation America Anti-Corn Law League Bank of England bankers became Birmingham Boulton and Watt Britain British canal capital co-operative coal colonies commercial Committee Company competition Corn Laws districts duty East India economic English Europe Excise export factory farmers farming favour foreign trade free trade funds Gladstone Glasgow gold Government Huskisson important improved increase industrial revolution invented Ireland iron joint stock labour Lancashire land Liverpool London Lord machine machinery Manchester manufacturers ment merchants Midland million mills monopoly North operation organised Parliament Peel Pitt Poor Law port production protection railways raw material reform repeal revenue road Scotland Section secured ships silk Society South steamship steel supply tariff taxation textile tion to-day towns Trade Unions traffic turnpike trust Vict wages Wales Watt West wheat woollen workers
Passagens conhecidas
Página 9 - The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertions, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
Página 15 - It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.
Página 14 - The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle that it is alone and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations...
Página 14 - 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 9 - As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Página 10 - But whether their combinations be offensive or defensive, they are always abundantly heard of. In order to bring the point to a speedy decision, they have always recourse to the loudest clamour and sometimes to the most shocking violence and outrage. They are desperate and act with the folly and extravagance of desperate men who must either starve or frighten their masters into an immediate compliance with their demands.
Página 19 - In that early and rude state of society, which precedes both the accumulation of stock and the appropriation of land, the proportion between the quantities of labour necessary for acquiring different objects seems to be the only circumstance which can afford any rule for exchanging them for one another.
Página 16 - As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.
Página 51 - In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent.
Página 274 - ... somewhat nearer to a level commensurate with the preceding ones, and thus rescue the trade from the trammels which have so long surrounded it. Before concluding these remarks, I beg to call your attention to an important fact connected with the new process, which affords peculiar facilities for the manufacture of cast steel.