Outlines of EconomicsMacmillan, 1910 - 700 páginas |
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... fact that labor is dear , so far from being an obstacle to prosperity , is the very proof and sub- stance of that prosperity . A glance at history indicates that men have made these mistakes not only in theory but in practice ...
... fact that labor is dear , so far from being an obstacle to prosperity , is the very proof and sub- stance of that prosperity . A glance at history indicates that men have made these mistakes not only in theory but in practice ...
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... fact " that stares us in the face ( and sometimes blinds us ) , are not likely to lack vigorous champions ; and to preserve the balance there is need of a craft of thinkers far enough removed from the battle to preserve the wider ...
... fact " that stares us in the face ( and sometimes blinds us ) , are not likely to lack vigorous champions ; and to preserve the balance there is need of a craft of thinkers far enough removed from the battle to preserve the wider ...
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... fact that we live in an environment in which the things that we desire are not furnished spontaneously in unlimited quantities . Whether it be looked upon as due to the niggardliness of nature or to the insatiability of human wants , the ...
... fact that we live in an environment in which the things that we desire are not furnished spontaneously in unlimited quantities . Whether it be looked upon as due to the niggardliness of nature or to the insatiability of human wants , the ...
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... fact that manu- facture itself is constantly being disturbed by improvements which cannot be foreseen . It is ... facts about land ownership , duties , and taxes . There is some evidence that the condition of child workers under the ...
... fact that manu- facture itself is constantly being disturbed by improvements which cannot be foreseen . It is ... facts about land ownership , duties , and taxes . There is some evidence that the condition of child workers under the ...
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... facts in this connection are familiar to every one and need no elaboration . Their importance lies in the fact that the rush to the city is apparently universal , that it has been going on for centuries , and that it indefinitely com ...
... facts in this connection are familiar to every one and need no elaboration . Their importance lies in the fact that the rush to the city is apparently universal , that it has been going on for centuries , and that it indefinitely com ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 370 - 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 81 - 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 38 - 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 38 - 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 184 - 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 586 - ... agent of any person, corporation, or syndicate in making such entry, nor in collusion with any person, corporation, or syndicate to give them the benefit of the land entered, or any part thereof, or the timber thereon...
Página 224 - 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 monetary standard.
Página 81 - ... 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 76 - The western States (I speak now from my own observation) stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way.
Página 114 - 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.