THE PRINCIPELS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY APPLIED TO THE CONDITION, THE RESOURCES, AND THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE |
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actual advantage agricultural already American amount annual average banks become bills called capital cause cent circulation circumstances coin commodities condition consequence considerable consumed cost course created currency debt demand depreciation diminished distribution dollars effect employed employment England English equal exchange exist expense exports extent fact fall foreign former give gold greater half hand important increase individual industry instance institutions interest issue labor land less limited manufactures means ment metals millions natural nearly necessary needed notes obtain operations payment period persons Political population portion present principle probably produce profits proportion purchase quantity raise reason received remain rent respect result rise savings says sell silver society soil specie supply things tion trade United wages wealth whole
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Página 136 - In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Página 126 - The laws and conditions of the production of wealth, partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional, or arbitrary in them. Whatever mankind produce, must be produced in the modes, and under the conditions, imposed by the constitution of external things, and by the inherent properties of their own bodily and mental structure.
Página 59 - In the first fire-engines, a boy was constantly employed to open and shut alternately the communication between the boiler and the cylinder, according as the piston either ascended or descended. One of those boys, who loved to play with his companions, observed that, by tying a string from the handle of the valve which opened this communication, to another part of the machine, the valve would open and shut without his assistance, and leave him at liberty to divert himself with his playfellows.
Página 34 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Página 91 - Thirdly, and lastly, commerce and manufactures gradually introduced order and good government, and with them the liberty and security of individuals, among the inhabitants of the country, who had before lived almost in a continual state of war with their neighbours, and of servile dependency upon their superiors.
Página 229 - The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Página 237 - In every society the price of every commodity finally resolves itself into some one or other, or all of those three parts; and in every improved society, all the three enter more or less, as component parts, into the price of the far greater part of commodities.
Página 223 - The counsellor at law who, perhaps, at near forty years of age, begins to make something by his profession, ought to receive the retribution, not only of his own so tedious and expensive education, but of that of more than twenty others who are never likely to make any thing by it. How extravagant soever the fees of counsellors at law may sometimes appear, their real retribution is never equal to this.
Página 28 - Capital is kept in existence from age to age not by preservation, but by perpetual reproduction: every part of it is used and destroyed, generally very soon after it is produced, but those who consume it are employed meanwhile in producing more.
Página 251 - In a country fully stocked in proportion to all the business it had to transact, as great a quantity of stock would be employed in every particular branch as the nature and extent of the trade would admit. The competition, therefore, would everywhere be as great, and consequently the ordinary profit as low as possible.
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| Título | THE PRINCIPELS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY APPLIED TO THE CONDITION, THE RESOURCES, AND THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE |
| Autor | FRANCIS BOWEN |
| Publicado | 1859 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 17 Feb. 2006 |
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