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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... twenty years of my early life were devoted to pursuits connected with the trade and manufacturing industry of the country , while a longer period has since been devoted to the study of the laws of wealth . A practical knowledge of ...
... twenty years of my early life were devoted to pursuits connected with the trade and manufacturing industry of the country , while a longer period has since been devoted to the study of the laws of wealth . A practical knowledge of ...
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... twenty - six years , 177.- Diagram 5 , corre- spondence of prices and currency circulation , except as explained by law of speculations , 179.- - Cotton and flour omitted for reasons after given ; these calculations per capita ; these ...
... twenty - six years , 177.- Diagram 5 , corre- spondence of prices and currency circulation , except as explained by law of speculations , 179.- - Cotton and flour omitted for reasons after given ; these calculations per capita ; these ...
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... twenty - five cents , 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 ...
... twenty - five cents , 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 ...
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... twenty - five per cent to the value or ex- changeability of the cotton . He has increased the wealth of the world so much . He , therefore , has produced value . Such transactions are useful alike to the producer and to the consumer of ...
... twenty - five per cent to the value or ex- changeability of the cotton . He has increased the wealth of the world so much . He , therefore , has produced value . Such transactions are useful alike to the producer and to the consumer of ...
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... twenty days of the year , may be willing to spend the rest of the time in doing nothing . But it was never heard that men came together to do any thing , and remain content to do nothing more . The full discussion and illustration of ...
... twenty days of the year , may be willing to spend the rest of the time in doing nothing . But it was never heard that men came together to do any thing , and remain content to do nothing more . The full discussion and illustration of ...
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advantages agricultural amount average balance balance of trade Bank of England Bank Reserve become bills of exchange bushel capital cause CHAPTER circulation coin commerce commodities consumption contraction cost cotton credit currency debt demand deposits desires division of labor duties economic effect efforts equal exists expansion exports extent fact fifty per cent fluctuations foreign greater hundred important income increase individual industry iron issued kind land laws of value less loans manufactures Massachusetts matter ment millions mixed currency Muscovado natural notes objects operation paid payment persons political economy pound sterling principle production profits proportion protection rate of interest receive regard rency result saving secure specie standard of value suppose tariff tariff of 1816 taxation taxes thing thousand dollars tion trade twenty United value currency wages wants wealth wheat whole
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Seite 464 - 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 306 - 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 210 - 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 210 - The commerce and industry of the country, however, it must be acknowledged, though they may be somewhat augmented, cannot be altogether so secure, when they are thus, as it were, suspended upon the Daedalian wings of paper money, as when they travel about upon the solid ground of gold and silver.
Seite 308 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as Little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Seite 308 - Every tax ought to be levied at the time or in the manner in which it is most likely to be convenient to the contributor to pay it.
Seite 306 - The expense of government to the individuals of a great nation is like the expense of management to the joint tenants of a great estate, who are all obliged to contribute in proportion to their respective interests in the estate. In the observation or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation.
Seite ix - I should do injustice to my own feelings, if I did not acknowledge the valuable assistance of my son, Colonel Francis A.
Seite 242 - 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.
Seite 370 - This principle that the earth belongs to the living and not to the dead is of very extensive application and consequences in every country, and most especially in France. It enters into the resolution of the questions Whether the nation may change the descent of lands holden in tail? Whether they may change the appropriation of lands given...
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