Outlines of EconomicsMacmillan, 1910 - 700 páginas |
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... , 354 ; The different uses of land , 357 ; The capitalization of rent , 359 ; Rent and social progress , 360 ; The unearned increment , 363 ; Urban lands , 365 . CHAPTER XXII . -THE WAGES OF LABOR Wages as the X CONTENTS.
... , 354 ; The different uses of land , 357 ; The capitalization of rent , 359 ; Rent and social progress , 360 ; The unearned increment , 363 ; Urban lands , 365 . CHAPTER XXII . -THE WAGES OF LABOR Wages as the X CONTENTS.
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... WAGES OF LABOR Wages as the price of labor , 367 ; Demand for labor , 368 ; Labor saving machinery , 369 ; Supply of labor , 371 ; Growth of popula- tion , 373 ; Subsistence theory of wages , 376 ; The standard of life and wages , 377 ...
... WAGES OF LABOR Wages as the price of labor , 367 ; Demand for labor , 368 ; Labor saving machinery , 369 ; Supply of labor , 371 ; Growth of popula- tion , 373 ; Subsistence theory of wages , 376 ; The standard of life and wages , 377 ...
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... wages system and the division between capital and labor which seem rooted in the constitution of society are scarcely two centu- ries old as a general system . One must never forget in the study of economics that the phenomena with ...
... wages system and the division between capital and labor which seem rooted in the constitution of society are scarcely two centu- ries old as a general system . One must never forget in the study of economics that the phenomena with ...
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... 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 a leader who proposes a new ...
... 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 a leader who proposes a new ...
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... wages is a future possibility . Benevolence , or the caritative principle , may be mentioned as another force in economic society , modifying and supplementing in many ways the work of competition . QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES 1. Attempt to ...
... wages is a future possibility . Benevolence , or the caritative principle , may be mentioned as another force in economic society , modifying and supplementing in many ways the work of competition . QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES 1. Attempt to ...
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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.