The Anatomy of Wealth Or the ABC of Every Day LifeSimpkin, 1880 - 135 páginas |
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Adam Smith agricultural amount barter Bastiat bodily Bonamy Price Bonny book called bottle of rum bread cattle cheese circulating capital Cloudy coin consumption cost of production course cultivation definition Demand for commodities demand for labour depend difference diminishing returns economists exert existence fact farm farmer flesh-forming give gold human Humpty Humpty Dumpty Humpty Dumptyism increase intellectual capital Jevons John Stuart Mill labour land law of diminishing live Longfield luxuries Macleod man's matter means metal Mill and Fawcett Mill says mind moral nation necessaries never object Peter Political Economy population possess principle produce Professor Fawcett Professor Price profit quotation number readers result rich sell shew shillings Sir Anthony Musgrave Sir Charles Strickland so-called science supply suppose theory of rent things thought unproductive utility wages word write ད ད
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Página 33 - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again." "That last line is much too long for the poetry," she added, almost out loud, forgetting that Humpty Dumpty would hear her.
Página 44 - After a certain, and not very advanced, stage in the progress of agriculture, it is the law of production from the land, that in any given state of agricultural skill and knowledge...
Página 33 - When I use a word ... it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.
Página 35 - Labour alone, therefore, never varying in its own value, is alone the ultimate and real standard by which the value of all commodities can at all times and places be estimated and compared.
Página 3 - IF all the world were apple-pie, And all the sea were ink, And all the trees were bread and cheese, What should we have to drink?
Página 34 - The keystone of the whole Theory of Exchange, and of the principal problems of Economics, lies in this proposition: — The 'ratio of exchange of any two commodities will be the reciprocal of the ratio of the final degrees of utility of the quantities of commodity available for consumption after the exchange is completed.
Página 50 - But this censure will be mitigated, when it is seriously considered that money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and that the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Página 22 - Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Página 117 - What care ye now, if winter's storm Sweep ruthless o'er each silken form ? Christ's blessing at your heart is warm, Ye fear no vexing mood. Alas ! of thousand bosoms kind, That daily court you and caress, How few the happy secret find Of your calm loveliness ! ' Live for to-day ! to-morrow's light To-morrow's cares shall bring to sight, Go sleep like closing flowers at night, And Heaven thy morn will bless.