Great Books of the Western World, Band 39Robert Maynard Hutchins Encyclopædia Britannica, 1952 |
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... corn above what it other- wise would be in those years . To encourage tillage , by keeping up the price of corn even in the most plentiful years , was the avowed end of the institution . In years of great scarcity , indeed , the boun ...
... corn above what it other- wise would be in those years . To encourage tillage , by keeping up the price of corn even in the most plentiful years , was the avowed end of the institution . In years of great scarcity , indeed , the boun ...
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... corn . This enhancement of the money price of corn , however , it has been thought , by ren- dering that commodity more profitable to the farmer , must necessarily encourage its production . I answer , that this might be the case if the ...
... corn . This enhancement of the money price of corn , however , it has been thought , by ren- dering that commodity more profitable to the farmer , must necessarily encourage its production . I answer , that this might be the case if the ...
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... [ corn - field pro- duces more food than pasture of equal extent , 64 ; ] its value compared with that of butchers meat , in the different periods of agriculture , 64 , 66 ; compared with silver , 76-7 ; circum- stances in a historical ...
... [ corn - field pro- duces more food than pasture of equal extent , 64 ; ] its value compared with that of butchers meat , in the different periods of agriculture , 64 , 66 ; compared with silver , 76-7 ; circum- stances in a historical ...
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Introduction and Plan of the Work | 1 |
Of Treaties of Commerce 233 Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Common | 6 |
That the Division of Labour is limited | 8 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Act of Parliament advantage afford altogether ancient annual produce bank bounty bour Britain bullion capital carried cattle cent cheaper circulation coin colonies commerce commodities commonly consequence considerable consumed consumption corn coun cultivation dearer demand duties employed employment endeavour England equal erally established Europe exchange expense exportation farmer France frequently fund gold and silver importation improvement increase industry inhabitants interest joint stock companies landlord less maintain manner manufactures master ment merchants metals money price monopoly nations natural natural price necessarily necessary obliged occasion ordinary paid particular perhaps Peru Portugal pound weight pounds pounds sterling present profits of stock proportion proprietors purchase quantity of labour raise rate of profit regulated rent revenue rude produce Scotland seems seignorage seldom sell shillings society sometimes sort sovereign Spain subsistence sufficient supposed surplus tion tivation town wages of labour whole workmen