Political Economy, with Especial Reference to the Industrial History of NationsPorter & Coates, 1882 - 415 Seiten |
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... AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY . " The true greatness of kingdoms and estates , and the means thereof , is an argu- ment fit for great and mighty princes to have in their hand ; to the end that neither by overmeasuring their forces ...
... AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY . " The true greatness of kingdoms and estates , and the means thereof , is an argu- ment fit for great and mighty princes to have in their hand ; to the end that neither by overmeasuring their forces ...
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... America , and first gained a place as a recognised science a century ago . There is nothing unusual in this , for nearly every science lags for a time behind its related art . Themistocles knew " how to make a small city great " long ...
... America , and first gained a place as a recognised science a century ago . There is nothing unusual in this , for nearly every science lags for a time behind its related art . Themistocles knew " how to make a small city great " long ...
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... American writers , are a proof of this . In France Jean Baptiste Say reduced the teachings of Smith to a more systematic shape , giving them that clearness of expres sion and perfection of form for which French literature is famous . In ...
... American writers , are a proof of this . In France Jean Baptiste Say reduced the teachings of Smith to a more systematic shape , giving them that clearness of expres sion and perfection of form for which French literature is famous . In ...
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... Senior's separation of the science from the art , called in question the whole system of the distribution of the products of labor and capital , as an THE CRITICAL STAGE . - CAIRNES . - AMERICANS . 24 ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY .
... Senior's separation of the science from the art , called in question the whole system of the distribution of the products of labor and capital , as an THE CRITICAL STAGE . - CAIRNES . - AMERICANS . 24 ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY .
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... America the cosmopolitical school has had many adhe- rents , who have written largely in defence of its doctrines , but none of them are of any importance in a scientific point of view . They have rendered less service , even , than its ...
... America the cosmopolitical school has had many adhe- rents , who have written largely in defence of its doctrines , but none of them are of any importance in a scientific point of view . They have rendered less service , even , than its ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adam Smith adopted agriculture American amount bank Bank of England Belgium better British capital cent century circulation classes colonies commerce commodities competition consumer coöperation cotton crops currency custom Dallas tariff demand duties economists economy effect employed England English especially established Europe exchange existence export fact factures farmer farming foreign France free trade French furnish Germany give growth hand Herbert Spencer imported improvement increase India industry interest Ireland Irish J. S. Mill labor land less Lord Dufferin manu manufactures ment methods monopoly native natural paid political population possession produce profits prosperity protection Prussia raised raw materials rent revenue says secure sell society soil supply tariff tariff of 1824 taxation theory things tillage tion W. R. Greg wages wealth whole woollen workmen Zollverein
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 38 - And the eye cannot say to the hand, ' I have no need of thee ' ; nor again the head to the feet,
Seite 186 - The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Seite 186 - Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot ; taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste ; taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion ; taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth...
Seite 384 - Who will not say that the uncommon beauty and marvellous English of the Protestant Bible is not one of the great strongholds of heresy in this country ? It lives on the ear, like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows how he can forego.
Seite 76 - He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath field.
Seite 37 - Whether it be in the development of the Earth, in the development of Life upon its surface, in the development of Society, of Government, of Manufactures, of Commerce, of Language, Literature, Science, Art, this same evolution of the simple into the complex, through successive differentiations, holds throughout.
Seite 186 - Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home. Taxes on the raw material ; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man.
Seite 150 - Accordingly we find that in every kingdom into which money begins to flow in greater abundance than formerly, everything takes a new face; labour and industry gain life; the merchant becomes more enterprising, the manufacturer more diligent and skilful, and even the farmer follows his plough with greater alacrity and attention.
Seite 250 - But it cannot be expected that individuals should, at their own risk, or rather to their certain loss, introduce a new manufacture, and bear the burden of carrying it on, until the producers have been educated up to the level of those with whom the processes are traditional.
Seite 251 - But, though it were true that the immediate and certain effect of regulations controlling the competition of foreign with domestic fabrics was an increase of price, it is universally true that the contrary is the ultimate effect with every successful manufacture. When a domestic manufacture has attained to perfection, and has engaged in the prosecution of it a competent number of persons, it invariably becomes cheaper.