An Attempt to Define Some of the First Principles of Political EconomyJ.M. Richardson, 1821 - 222 páginas |
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... commodity for another , that he will be induced to cultivate more ground , or to increase the number of his domesticated animals ; because he then finds that with the extra produce of these he may procure many articles hitherto unknown ...
... commodity for another , that he will be induced to cultivate more ground , or to increase the number of his domesticated animals ; because he then finds that with the extra produce of these he may procure many articles hitherto unknown ...
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... commodities exchanged . The exchanges were but few , and generally in large bulk . When they became more frequent and minute , mankind soon found themselves at a loss to ascertain the exact quantities of divisible substances , and the ...
... commodities exchanged . The exchanges were but few , and generally in large bulk . When they became more frequent and minute , mankind soon found themselves at a loss to ascertain the exact quantities of divisible substances , and the ...
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... commodities might be settled , and in that capacity they became perfectly fixed and stationary . Thus we find the ... commodity for another 23.
... commodities might be settled , and in that capacity they became perfectly fixed and stationary . Thus we find the ... commodity for another 23.
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... commodities was ascertained ; thus , a certain quantity of goods , of whatever denomination , appearing to be equal ... commodity being reckoned equal to a bar of another commodity . As , how- ever , it must unavoidably happen that ...
... commodities was ascertained ; thus , a certain quantity of goods , of whatever denomination , appearing to be equal ... commodity being reckoned equal to a bar of another commodity . As , how- ever , it must unavoidably happen that ...
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... commodities : when they wish to make an exchange of them , they say such an article is worth three macutes ; such ... commodity . " - Sir James Stewart's Political Economy , vol , i . p . 526 . 1 The necessity for doing so appears to ...
... commodities : when they wish to make an exchange of them , they say such an article is worth three macutes ; such ... commodity . " - Sir James Stewart's Political Economy , vol , i . p . 526 . 1 The necessity for doing so appears to ...
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advantage amount appears articles of merchandise articles of necessity asserted assignats Bank of England Bank of Ireland bank-notes barter become betwixt bills of exchange borrowed capital CHAP circulating medium clothing commerce commodities consequence continued contrary coun cultivated debt demand depreciated dium division of labour doctrine doubloons earth employed equivalent exist exported fixed forced paper money former gold and silver gold bullion gold coins grain greater guineas increase inhabitants instances intercourse invariable issued to represent land manufac manufactures measure of value ment merchant mode nations nature necessary notes paid pass payment peace perfectly political economy pound sterling pound weight precious metals price of gold principal proportion purchase quantity of gold rate of exchange received riches shillings silver bullion society standard of value standard unit superabundance symbols or tokens take place taxes thing tion trade troy weight ture wealth weight woollen
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Página 16 - How many merchants and carriers, besides, must have been employed in transporting the materials from some of those workmen to others who often live in a very distant part of the country! How much commerce and navigation in particular, how many ship-builders, sailors, sail-makers, rope-makers, must have been employed in order to bring together the different drugs made use of by the dyer, which often come from the remotest corners of the world!
Página 3 - Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; '•' Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat of the herb of the field.
Página 17 - ... 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 cooperation 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 17 - ... of his kitchen, all the furniture of his table, the knives and forks, the earthen or pewter plates upon which he serves up and divides his victuals, the different hands employed in preparing his bread and his beer, the glass window which lets in the heat and the light, and keeps out the wind and the rain...
Página 3 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Página 164 - The whole of the advantages and disadvantages of the different employments of labour and stock must, in the same neighbourhood, be either perfectly equal or continually tending to equality.
Página 12 - The separation of different trades and employments from one another, seems to have taken place, in consequence of this advantage. This separation too is generally carried furthest in those countries which enjoy the highest degree of industry and improvement; what is the work of one man in a rude state of society, being generally that of several in an improved one. In every improved society, the farmer is generally nothing but a farmer; the manufacturer, nothing but a manufacturer.
Página 17 - Were we to examine, in the same manner, all the different parts of his dress and household furniture, the coarse linen shirt which he wears next his skin, the shoes which cover his feet, the bed which he lies on, and all the different parts which compose it, the...
Página 15 - The woollen coat, for example, which covers the day-labourer, as coarse and rough as it may appear, is the produce of the joint labour of a great multitude of workmen. 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. How many...
Página 16 - ... 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 smeltinghouse, the brick-maker, 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.