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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... on level with interest , 301 . - - CHAPTER VIII.- Wages , Rent , Interest , and Profits , as relatively af- fected by Currency Inflation . - Not affected in equal degree ; wages did not rise in 1864–5 as prices did , 302. — xxii CONTENTS .
... on level with interest , 301 . - - CHAPTER VIII.- Wages , Rent , Interest , and Profits , as relatively af- fected by Currency Inflation . - Not affected in equal degree ; wages did not rise in 1864–5 as prices did , 302. — xxii CONTENTS .
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... equal in a free country , 307. - Government own a share in every product , has a lien on every article of value ; principles of taxation propounded by Adam Smith ; first , equality of contribu- tion , 308. — Explained and illustrated ...
... equal in a free country , 307. - Government own a share in every product , has a lien on every article of value ; principles of taxation propounded by Adam Smith ; first , equality of contribu- tion , 308. — Explained and illustrated ...
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... equal labor . ' " No : in strict equity , you put your value on your service , and I upon mine . I don't force you : why should you lay a constraint upon me ? Give me a whole year's labor , or seek a diamond for yourself . ' " But that ...
... equal labor . ' " No : in strict equity , you put your value on your service , and I upon mine . I don't force you : why should you lay a constraint upon me ? Give me a whole year's labor , or seek a diamond for yourself . ' " But that ...
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... equal to one - fourth of a day's labor . By the introduction of ma- chinery , the value was reduced to ten , then to five cents , or the twentieth part of a day's labor ; the utility remaining all the time as at first . The value of ...
... equal to one - fourth of a day's labor . By the introduction of ma- chinery , the value was reduced to ten , then to five cents , or the twentieth part of a day's labor ; the utility remaining all the time as at first . The value of ...
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... agent in England are probably equal to the muscular effort of one hundred millions of men ; but the whole of it is gratuitous . All that is required to secure these 16 [ BOOK I. DEFINITIONS . -Nature gives value to nothing,
... agent in England are probably equal to the muscular effort of one hundred millions of men ; but the whole of it is gratuitous . All that is required to secure these 16 [ BOOK I. DEFINITIONS . -Nature gives value to nothing,
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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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