Principles of Political Economy: book 1. Production. book 2. DistributionMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... Effects of Law and Custom on Wages . § 1. Modes in which law and custom may affect wages 2. Slavery , serfdom , and patria potestas 357 357 3 . Apprenticeship 360 4. Craft guilds 362 5. Legislation with respect to masters and servants ...
... Effects of Law and Custom on Wages . § 1. Modes in which law and custom may affect wages 2. Slavery , serfdom , and patria potestas 357 357 3 . Apprenticeship 360 4. Craft guilds 362 5. Legislation with respect to masters and servants ...
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... effects of bad government , low morality and intolerant or debased religion . But every one knows that a debased religion is one thing and a debased currency another , or more generally , that the domain of economic history can be ...
... effects of bad government , low morality and intolerant or debased religion . But every one knows that a debased religion is one thing and a debased currency another , or more generally , that the domain of economic history can be ...
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... effects of various changes proposed as regards wealth ; we may examine the real meaning of these proposals , and the adaptability of the means suggested to the ends desired . But we are still dealing with facts in so far 14 PRINCIPLES ...
... effects of various changes proposed as regards wealth ; we may examine the real meaning of these proposals , and the adaptability of the means suggested to the ends desired . But we are still dealing with facts in so far 14 PRINCIPLES ...
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... effect of a movement in the price of one com- modity upon the general average of an indefinite number may be neglected . In certain inquiries , however , as for example , in estimating the accumulation of wealth over a considerable ...
... effect of a movement in the price of one com- modity upon the general average of an indefinite number may be neglected . In certain inquiries , however , as for example , in estimating the accumulation of wealth over a considerable ...
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... effects on the characters and habits of men , combined with great improvements in the means of com- munication . The latter , it is plain , depend not only on man's ideas and morality , but upon the gifts and forces of nature . § 2. The ...
... effects on the characters and habits of men , combined with great improvements in the means of com- munication . The latter , it is plain , depend not only on man's ideas and morality , but upon the gifts and forces of nature . § 2. The ...
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Página 108 - ... if we examine, I say, all these things, and consider what a variety of labour is employed about each of them, we shall be sensible that without the assistance and co-operation of many thousands the very meanest person in a civilized country could not be provided, even according to, what we very falsely imagine, the easy and simple manner in which he is commonly accommodated.
Página 404 - Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.
Página 50 - Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Página 107 - Observe the accommodation of the most common artificer or day-labourer in a civilized and thriving country, and you will perceive that the number of people of whose industry a part, though but a small part, has been employed in procuring him this accommodation, exceeds all computation. The woollen coat, for example, which covers the day-labourer, u coarse and rough as it may appear, is the produce of the joint labour of a great multitude of workmen.
Página 259 - These are the reasons which form the justification in an economical point of view, of property in land. It is seen, that they are only valid, in so far as the proprietor of land is its improver. Whenever, in any country, the proprietor, [Note omitted.] generally speaking, ceases to be the improver, political economy has nothing to say in defence of landed property, as there established. In no sound theory of private property was it ever contemplated that the proprietor of land should be merely a...
Página 369 - There is scarce a poor man in England of forty years of age, I will venture to say, who has not in some part of his life felt himself most cruelly oppressed by this ill-contrived law of settlements.
Página 121 - And the great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, - that we manufacture everything there except men; we blanch cotton, and strengthen steel, and refine sugar, and shape pottery; but to brighten, to strengthen, to refine, or to form a single living spirit, never enters into our estimate of advantages.
Página 265 - Fourthly, by subjecting the people to the frequent visits and the odious examination of the taxgatherers it may expose them to much unnecessary trouble, vexation, and oppression; and though vexation is not, strictly speaking, expense, it is certainly equivalent to the expense at which every man would be willing to redeem himself from it.
Página 232 - We may say that the movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from status to contract.
Página 186 - The immediate check may be stated to consist in all those customs and all those diseases which seem to be generated by a scarcity of the means of subsistence and all those causes independent of this scarcity, whether of a moral or physical nature, which tend prematurely to weaken and destroy the human frame.