Outlines of EconomicsMacmillan, 1908 - 700 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 70
Página 32
... represent a type of culture that is lower than that of the agricultural stage ( as distinguished from hoe - culture ) , and higher than that of the hunter . Within this stage also are classed together tribes of varying advancement ...
... represent a type of culture that is lower than that of the agricultural stage ( as distinguished from hoe - culture ) , and higher than that of the hunter . Within this stage also are classed together tribes of varying advancement ...
Página 33
... represents a step in human progress . The slavery of the early period we are now considering was inevitable , and is not to be judged by modern standards . We now know that free labor is better than slave labor , especially in the later ...
... represents a step in human progress . The slavery of the early period we are now considering was inevitable , and is not to be judged by modern standards . We now know that free labor is better than slave labor , especially in the later ...
Página 63
... representing the worst failures in the struggle for existence . Centuries are against them , as centuries were on the side of those who formerly came to us . " 2 There can be no doubt about the real gravity of the problem . In times ...
... representing the worst failures in the struggle for existence . Centuries are against them , as centuries were on the side of those who formerly came to us . " 2 There can be no doubt about the real gravity of the problem . In times ...
Página 76
... represents somewhat more capital , the increase of the capital investment is not great , is much less , in fact , than the increase in the wealth of the average individ- ual . Moreover , a majority of American farmers own the farms ...
... represents somewhat more capital , the increase of the capital investment is not great , is much less , in fact , than the increase in the wealth of the average individ- ual . Moreover , a majority of American farmers own the farms ...
Página 98
... represents an indisputable claim on the services or commodi- ties of other people . If the bond should be destroyed , the holder as an individual would suffer loss , but society as a whole would be neither richer nor poorer , and ...
... represents an indisputable claim on the services or commodi- ties of other people . If the bond should be destroyed , the holder as an individual would suffer loss , but society as a whole would be neither richer nor poorer , and ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Outlines of Economics Richard Theodore Ely,Thomas Sewall Adams,Max Otto Lorenz Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Términos y frases comunes
agriculture American amount bank reserves banks bimetallism capital Census cent Chap CHAPTER cities coinage coins commercial commodity companies competition consumers consumption coöperation corporation cost debt demand distribution of wealth dollars economic economic rent efficiency employers England entrepreneur exchange expenses of production fact factors farm farmer federal fiat money gold greenbacks important increase individual industrial Industrial Revolution interest investment kind labor land less loans manufacturing marginal marginal product marginal utility means ment methods modern monopoly price municipal natural monopolies nature nomic organization ownership paid payment persons physiocrats population present principle problem profits progressive taxation public expenditures purchase railways regulation rent result revenue secure seigniorage sell social socialist society standard supply taxation theory things tion to-day trade trades unions union United utility wages wants
Pasajes populares
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.