The Science of Wealth: A Manual of Political Economy. Embracing the Laws of Trade, Currency, and FinanceLittle, Brown, 1866 - 478 Seiten Excerpt from Science of Wealth: A Manual of Political Economy, Embracing the Laws of Trade Currency and Finance These considerations, the force of which no one can fail to appreciate, render a knowledge of this science of high importance in the estimation of all re ecting minds. It may be added that the study of it need not be con fined to those merely who are far advanced in general edu cation. Common sense and a good knowledge of the Eng lish language only are requisite to its successful pursuit. Intelligible and plain, the science has no abstractions, no fanciful theories. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works." |
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... United States , without whose aid it would have been nearly impossible , amid other avocations , to complete this work . A. W. NORTH BROOKFIELD , MASS . , 1866 . TABLE OF CONTENTS . BOOK I. - DEFINITIONS . CHAPTER PREFACE . ix.
... United States , without whose aid it would have been nearly impossible , amid other avocations , to complete this work . A. W. NORTH BROOKFIELD , MASS . , 1866 . TABLE OF CONTENTS . BOOK I. - DEFINITIONS . CHAPTER PREFACE . ix.
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... United States ? 62. - In Great Britain ? why Ireland is so depressed , 63.- Can there be a surplus of capital ? lesson from Genoa and Venice , 64. — Capital checked by luxury , 65 . -Emigration of capital , 66 . - CHAPTER XI . - The Co ...
... United States ? 62. - In Great Britain ? why Ireland is so depressed , 63.- Can there be a surplus of capital ? lesson from Genoa and Venice , 64. — Capital checked by luxury , 65 . -Emigration of capital , 66 . - CHAPTER XI . - The Co ...
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... United States is agriculture ; some sections would manufacture without protection , as they began to do , 115. " Let us alone , " the policy of trade , 115. Was the original policy of New England ; protection the disease of in- dustry ...
... United States is agriculture ; some sections would manufacture without protection , as they began to do , 115. " Let us alone , " the policy of trade , 115. Was the original policy of New England ; protection the disease of in- dustry ...
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... United States Government seigniorage , 130 ; government gives no value to coin , only certifies weight and fineness , 131 . CHAPTER III . Credit Currency . - Transfers debts , does not pay them ; inevitably at a discount ; folly of gold ...
... United States Government seigniorage , 130 ; government gives no value to coin , only certifies weight and fineness , 131 . CHAPTER III . Credit Currency . - Transfers debts , does not pay them ; inevitably at a discount ; folly of gold ...
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... United States , 1834-59 , 161 . -Diagram 4 , in currency and proportion of specie per capita , same period ; Table II . , extremes of fluctuation , currency United States per capita , and quality of same , 1834-59 , 162. — Table III ...
... United States , 1834-59 , 161 . -Diagram 4 , in currency and proportion of specie per capita , same period ; Table II . , extremes of fluctuation , currency United States per capita , and quality of same , 1834-59 , 162. — Table III ...
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abroad advantage agriculture amount average balance of trade Bank of England Bank Reserve become bills of exchange bushels capital cause cent circulation commerce commodities condition consumption cost cotton credit currency demand deposits desires division of labor duties economical effect equal exchange expense export extent fact fifty fluctuations foreign gold greater human hundred important income increase individual industry issued land laws of value less loans luxury manufactures matter ment millions mixed currency mixed-currency national debt natural objects operation paid payment persons political economy population pound sterling present principle production profits proportion protection rate of interest received regard rency rent result revenue saving secure society specie standard of value stocks suppose tariff tariff of 1816 taxation thing thousand dollars tion trade twenty United wages wants wealth wheat whole
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Seite 305 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor and to every other person.
Seite 304 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Seite 208 - The gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to market all the grass and corn of the country, produces itself not a single pile of either.
Seite 208 - I may be allowed so violent a metaphor, a sort of waggon-way through the air, enable the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways into good pastures and cornfields, and thereby to increase very considerably the annual produce of its land and labour.
Seite 460 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Seite 460 - And wine and corn To each man born Be free as warmth in summer weather. The meanest wretch that ever trod, The deepest sunk in guilt and sorrow, Might stand erect In self-respect, And share the teeming world tomorrow. What might be done? This might be done. And more than this, my suffering brother; More than the tongue E'er said or sung If men were wise...
Seite 226 - England not one shilling of paper money of any description is received but of choice; that the whole has had its origin in cash actually deposited; and that it is convertible at pleasure, in an instant, and without the smallest loss, into cash again. Our paper is of value in commerce because in law it is of none.
Seite ix - I should do injustice to my own feelings if I did not acknowledge...
Seite 240 - Sixty days after sight of this first of exchange (second and third unpaid), pay to the order of ourselves £1,600. sterling value received, and charge the same to account of as advised. "Dana Land and Lumber Company. "To Messrs. Geo. Shadbolt & Son, London.
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