Outlines of EconomicsMacmillan, 1908 - 700 páginas |
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... particular class , especially the employer . Other men were treated simply as " a factor in production . " An English writer speaks of dear labor as one of the chief obstacles to England's economic prosperity . Could anything be more ...
... particular class , especially the employer . Other men were treated simply as " a factor in production . " An English writer speaks of dear labor as one of the chief obstacles to England's economic prosperity . Could anything be more ...
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... particular city or country district in which he is for the moment inter- ested . No general treatise on economics can authoritatively decide the practical problems of particular times and places ; although the economist , before all ...
... particular city or country district in which he is for the moment inter- ested . No general treatise on economics can authoritatively decide the practical problems of particular times and places ; although the economist , before all ...
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... particular localities as is found at the present day , although the beginning of such localization had clearly been made in the textile and iron industries . On the whole , however , the commerce between the different sections of the ...
... particular localities as is found at the present day , although the beginning of such localization had clearly been made in the textile and iron industries . On the whole , however , the commerce between the different sections of the ...
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... particular time . Real income , on the other hand , has reference to the satisfaction which we derive from the use of material things or personal services during a period of time . Money income should , perhaps , refer to the value of ...
... particular time . Real income , on the other hand , has reference to the satisfaction which we derive from the use of material things or personal services during a period of time . Money income should , perhaps , refer to the value of ...
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... particular things . A lead pencil and the year's crop of wheat are both wealth . How shall we measure the amount of wealth that these objects represent ? Since the items of wealth are composed of very heterogeneous objects , we cannot ...
... particular things . A lead pencil and the year's crop of wheat are both wealth . How shall we measure the amount of wealth that these objects represent ? Since the items of wealth are composed of very heterogeneous objects , we cannot ...
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Página 355 - 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 40 - 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 84 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Página 217 - It is evident that if the opportunity for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 had still existed, there would have been another sudden change in the actual standard of value.
Página 41 - What is the species of domestic industry which his capital can employ, and of which the produce is likely to be of the greatest value, every individual, it is evident, can, in his local situation, judge much better than any statesman or lawgiver can do for him.
Página 187 - Perpetuities and monopolies are contrary to the genius of a free government, and shall never be allowed; nor shall the law of primogeniture or entailments ever be in force in this state.
Página 34 - At every considerable house there was a manufactory. Every clothier keeps one horse at least to carry his manufactures to the market ; and every one generally keeps a cow or two or more for his family. By this means the small pieces of enclosed land about each house are occupied, for they scarce sow corn enough to feed their poultry. The houses are full of lusty fellows, some at the dye-vat, some at the looms, others dressing the cloths ; the women and children carding or spinning ; being all employed...
Página 521 - England, p. 61. should be employed to bring the miller, the brewer, the cotton manufacturer, the packer, and the consumer closer to the farm. If caution and expert knowledge are employed, this can be done without crippling those transportation agencies which have given the American farmer entry to the markets of Europe and the Orient, and which must be preserved in order to prevent too exclusive a reliance upon local demand. A local market as the regular outlet, and a foreign market as a potential...
Página 84 - ... the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890, and for the fervor of the Populist movement of the early nineties.
Página 117 - The things which have the greatest value in use have frequently little or no value in exchange; and on the contrary, those which have the greatest value in exchange have frequently little or no value in use. Nothing is more useful than water: but it will purchase scarce anything; scarce anything can be had in exchange for it.