Conversations on Political Economy: In which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly ExplainedBowles & Dearborn, 1828 - 330 páginas |
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... cause of rent . - Causes of rent ; 1. The fertility of the earth ; 2. Diversity of soil and situation requiring dif- ferent degrees of expense to raise similar produce . - Ori- gin of rent . Rent increases positively in a progressive ...
... cause of rent . - Causes of rent ; 1. The fertility of the earth ; 2. Diversity of soil and situation requiring dif- ferent degrees of expense to raise similar produce . - Ori- gin of rent . Rent increases positively in a progressive ...
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... Causes of the differ- ent rate of interest yielded by land or by money . - Causes of the fluctuations of interest . — Rate of interest in India , in China , and in America . — Of usury . — Government loans , or income derived from the ...
... Causes of the differ- ent rate of interest yielded by land or by money . - Causes of the fluctuations of interest . — Rate of interest in India , in China , and in America . — Of usury . — Government loans , or income derived from the ...
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... Cause of the real variation of the exchange . - Disproportion of exports and imports . - Cause of the nominal variation of the ex- change . — Depreciation of the value of the currency of the country , CONVERSATION XXII . ON EXPENDITURE ...
... Cause of the real variation of the exchange . - Disproportion of exports and imports . - Cause of the nominal variation of the ex- change . — Depreciation of the value of the currency of the country , CONVERSATION XXII . ON EXPENDITURE ...
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... causes of the wealth and prosperity of nations . 36. Why did Caroline consider political economy a perplexing subject ? - -37 . What reply did the philosopher make to the lady who desired him to tell what is meant by the term political ...
... causes of the wealth and prosperity of nations . 36. Why did Caroline consider political economy a perplexing subject ? - -37 . What reply did the philosopher make to the lady who desired him to tell what is meant by the term political ...
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... causes which have thus coope- rated to enrich and civilize a nation . This science is , therefore , essentially founded upon history , -not the his- tory of sovereigns , of wars , and of intrigues ; but the history of the arts , and of ...
... causes which have thus coope- rated to enrich and civilize a nation . This science is , therefore , essentially founded upon history , -not the his- tory of sovereigns , of wars , and of intrigues ; but the history of the arts , and of ...
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Página 60 - I have seen a small manufactory of this kind where ten men only were employed and where some of them consequently performed two or three distinct operations. But though they were very poor and therefore but indifferently accommodated with the necessary machinery, they could, when they exerted themselves, make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day.
Página 61 - But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this particular business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day...
Página 60 - One man draws out the wire, another straightens it; a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head...
Página 58 - ... what a variety of labor is requisite in order to form that very simple machine, the shears with which the shepherd clips the wool. The miner, the builder of the furnace for smelting the ore, the feller of the timber, the burner of the charcoal to be made use of in the smelting-house, the brickmaker, the brick-layer, the workmen who attend the furnace, the mill-wright, the forger, the smith, must all of them join their different arts in order to produce them.
Página 116 - Where then, ah where, shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride?
Página 58 - The shepherd, the sorter of the wool, the wool-comber or carder, the dyer, the scribbler, the spinner, the weaver, the fuller, the dresser, with many others, must all join their different arts in order to complete even this homely production.
Página 38 - But every man, when he enters into society, gives up a part of his natural liberty, as the price of so valuable a purchase ; and in consideration of receiving the advantages of mutual commerce, obliges himself to conform to those laws, which the community has thought proper to establish.
Página 59 - ... the accommodation of an European prince does not always so much exceed that of an industrious and frugal peasant, as the accommodation of the latter exceeds that of many an African king, the absolute master of the lives and liberties of ten thousand naked savages.
Página 319 - Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied ; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds ; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth, Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth ; His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green , Around the world each needful product flies, For all the luxuries the world supplies.
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