Public Economy for the United StatesA. S. Barnes & Company, 1848 - 536 páginas |
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... present day , the operation of restrictive and pro- hibitory commercial legislation on national wealth . Let this , then , " he says , " be the scientific question to be investigated by specific experience . If two nations can be found ...
... present day , the operation of restrictive and pro- hibitory commercial legislation on national wealth . Let this , then , " he says , " be the scientific question to be investigated by specific experience . If two nations can be found ...
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... present subject : " The property which philosophers usually consider as characteristic of empirical laws , is that of being unfit to be relied on beyond the limits of time , place , and circumstances , in which the observations have ...
... present subject : " The property which philosophers usually consider as characteristic of empirical laws , is that of being unfit to be relied on beyond the limits of time , place , and circumstances , in which the observations have ...
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... present them to others , are not more curious than instructive . The transient prev- alence of this false theory , is no more wonderful , than that false theories of astronomy should have prevailed for ages , for centuries even . The ...
... present them to others , are not more curious than instructive . The transient prev- alence of this false theory , is no more wonderful , than that false theories of astronomy should have prevailed for ages , for centuries even . The ...
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... Present Time . MUCH is saved in debate on any question , and the necessity of debate may often be avoided , by a right understanding of terms . “ Free Trade ” is ostensibly , and in itself naturally , an ad - captan- dum phrase ...
... Present Time . MUCH is saved in debate on any question , and the necessity of debate may often be avoided , by a right understanding of terms . “ Free Trade ” is ostensibly , and in itself naturally , an ad - captan- dum phrase ...
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... present that of the United States is a bar to Free Trade , because the condition and character of the people is inconsistent with it . Their instincts make them aware , that they can not work on the same terms with the poorly - fed ...
... present that of the United States is a bar to Free Trade , because the condition and character of the people is inconsistent with it . Their instincts make them aware , that they can not work on the same terms with the poorly - fed ...
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Página 312 - 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 41 - If two or more instances in which the phenomenon occurs have only one circumstance in common, while two or more instances in which it does not occur have nothing in common save the absence of that circumstance, the circumstance in which alone the two sets of instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.
Página 136 - Under circumstances giving a powerful impulse to manufacturing industry, it has made among us a progress, and exhibited an efficiency, which justify the belief, that with a protection not more than is due...
Página 152 - But in different stages of society, the proportions of the whole produce of the earth which will be allotted to each of these classes, under the names of rent, profit, and wages...
Página 279 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbour, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.
Página 41 - If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former; the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.
Página 41 - If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.
Página 161 - REST, considered as the price paid for the use of land, is naturally the highest which the tenant can afford to pay in the actual circumstances of the land. In adjusting the terms of the lease, the landlord endeavours to leave him no greater share of the produce than what is sufficient to keep up the stock from which he furnishes the seed, pays the labour, and purchases and maintains the cattle, and other instruments of husbandry, together with the ordinary profits of farming stock in the neighbourhood.
Página 314 - There seem, however, to be two cases in which it will generally be advantageous to lay some burden upon foreign for the encouragement of domestic industry. The first is, when some particular sort of industry is necessary for the defence of the country.
Página 312 - But the annual revenue of every society is always precisely equal to the exchangeable value of the whole annual produce of its industry, or rather is precisely the same thing with that exchangeable value. As every individual, therefore, endeavours as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestic industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value ; every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as...