Outlines of EconomicsMacmillan, 1910 - 700 páginas |
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... reason . But when this term is used , not all forms of rivalry are meant , for even if private property and free contract were abolished , some form of struggle might still persist . There might still be conflicts between races and ...
... reason . But when this term is used , not all forms of rivalry are meant , for even if private property and free contract were abolished , some form of struggle might still persist . There might still be conflicts between races and ...
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... reason . Any attempt to lower wages which would make impossible the maintenance of a customary standard of liv- ing would be stubbornly resisted . Custom is the result of habit , and is continually broken into by our tendency to imitate ...
... reason . Any attempt to lower wages which would make impossible the maintenance of a customary standard of liv- ing would be stubbornly resisted . Custom is the result of habit , and is continually broken into by our tendency to imitate ...
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... ? Are the richer or poorer classes multiplying more rapidly ? Can you state the reason ? 1 Bogart , Economic History of the United States , p . 1 . 6. What are the distinctively economic factors of the negro 68 OUTLINES OF ECONOMICS.
... ? Are the richer or poorer classes multiplying more rapidly ? Can you state the reason ? 1 Bogart , Economic History of the United States , p . 1 . 6. What are the distinctively economic factors of the negro 68 OUTLINES OF ECONOMICS.
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... reason than because they could glide gently down the stream , without considering , perhaps , the difficulties of the voyage back again , and the time necessary to perform it in ; and because they have no other means of coming to us but ...
... reason than because they could glide gently down the stream , without considering , perhaps , the difficulties of the voyage back again , and the time necessary to perform it in ; and because they have no other means of coming to us but ...
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... reason why a mil- lionaire should consume all the income he controls than there is why a philosopher or an artist should withhold from society the satisfactions afforded by his genius . A successful manufacturer once expressed the ...
... reason why a mil- lionaire should consume all the income he controls than there is why a philosopher or an artist should withhold from society the satisfactions afforded by his genius . A successful manufacturer once expressed the ...
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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.