The Principles of Political Economy Applied to the Condition, the Resources, and the Institutions of the American PeopleLittle, Brown,, 1856 - 546 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα xvi
... payment of rent no hardship A protective system would raise rents at the West CHAPTER XIV . 188 189 190 191 · 192 THE CAUSES WHICH AFFECT THE RATE OF WAGES . 193 Origin of the English doctrine of wages 193 Low wages do not prove excess ...
... payment of rent no hardship A protective system would raise rents at the West CHAPTER XIV . 188 189 190 191 · 192 THE CAUSES WHICH AFFECT THE RATE OF WAGES . 193 Origin of the English doctrine of wages 193 Low wages do not prove excess ...
Σελίδα xxiii
... payments A moderate expansion of " loans and discounts " is possible Fluctuating amount of disposable capital ... pay for her exports Advantages of interchange between nations Illustrated by the trade with Barbadoes Our trade with ...
... payments A moderate expansion of " loans and discounts " is possible Fluctuating amount of disposable capital ... pay for her exports Advantages of interchange between nations Illustrated by the trade with Barbadoes Our trade with ...
Σελίδα 9
... pay you for it . " The flour - dealer complies , and im- mediately carries back the bill to the bank , and is paid for it either in hard specie , or in that amount carried to his credit , or in any other form that he may prefer . We may ...
... pay you for it . " The flour - dealer complies , and im- mediately carries back the bill to the bank , and is paid for it either in hard specie , or in that amount carried to his credit , or in any other form that he may prefer . We may ...
Σελίδα 48
... payment of a fixed amount of either ; these payments in kind were next com- muted for payments in money , which were established by custom at so early a period , and therefore at so small an amount , that they became mere quitrents ...
... payment of a fixed amount of either ; these payments in kind were next com- muted for payments in money , which were established by custom at so early a period , and therefore at so small an amount , that they became mere quitrents ...
Σελίδα 64
... pay wages to more than thirty or forty persons . McCulloch observes , that “ a manu- facturer's power to employ ... payment of wages . " Boots and shoes , for instance , are at present man- ufactured without machinery , and with the ...
... pay wages to more than thirty or forty persons . McCulloch observes , that “ a manu- facturer's power to employ ... payment of wages . " Boots and shoes , for instance , are at present man- ufactured without machinery , and with the ...
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Σελίδα 476 - The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself...
Σελίδα 132 - In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Σελίδα 475 - That the maxim of buying in the cheapest market, and selling in the dearest, which regulates every merchant in his individual dealings, is strictly applicable as the best rule for the trade of the whole nation.
Σελίδα 122 - The laws and conditions of the production of wealth, partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional, or arbitrary in them. Whatever mankind produce, must be produced in the modes, and under the conditions, imposed by the constitution of external things, and by the inherent properties of their own bodily and mental structure.
Σελίδα 56 - One of those boys, who loved to play with his companions, observed that, by tying a string from the handle of the valve which opened this communication, to another part of the machine, the valve would open and shut without his assistance, and leave him at liberty to divert himself with his playfellows.
Σελίδα 476 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
Σελίδα 500 - They were themselves, either from their original condition, or from the necessity of their common interest, nearly on a general level in respect to property. Their situation demanded a parcelling out and division of the lands, and it may be fairly said, that this necessary act fixed the future frame and form of their government. The character of their political institutions was determined by the fundamental laws respecting property.
Σελίδα 225 - The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Σελίδα 233 - In every society the price of every commodity finally resolves itself into some one or other, or all of those three parts; and in every improved society, all the three enter more or less, as component parts, into the price of the far greater part of commodities.
Σελίδα 10 - What is annually saved is as regularly consumed as what is annually spent, and nearly in the same time too ; but it is consumed by a different set of people.