Principles of Political Economy, Teile 1-4Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837 - 736 Seiten |
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... fall , however , having been occasioned by the improvement effected in the means of applying labour , no further fall would take place until a further improvement was effected . The more slowly those improve- ments were made , the more ...
... fall , however , having been occasioned by the improvement effected in the means of applying labour , no further fall would take place until a further improvement was effected . The more slowly those improve- ments were made , the more ...
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... fall . The labour of an individual armed with a musket , for a week , would be more productive of venison , than that of months without its aid . In any exchanges that might now be made of the stock already existing , the value would be ...
... fall . The labour of an individual armed with a musket , for a week , would be more productive of venison , than that of months without its aid . In any exchanges that might now be made of the stock already existing , the value would be ...
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... fall in the labour value of those existing commodities , or machines , which constitute capital . The longer , therefore , that any commodity , or machine , in the mode of producing which improvements have been made , has been in ...
... fall in the labour value of those existing commodities , or machines , which constitute capital . The longer , therefore , that any commodity , or machine , in the mode of producing which improvements have been made , has been in ...
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... falling in its labour value . This diminution in the value of capital is attended by a dimi- nution in the ... fall in value from six months to that of one , two , or three days . The man who desired fifty years since , the use ...
... falling in its labour value . This diminution in the value of capital is attended by a dimi- nution in the ... fall in value from six months to that of one , two , or three days . The man who desired fifty years since , the use ...
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... fall . Any circumstances that might lessen the demand for an ar- ticle , would tend to lessen its value when compared with other commodities ; and if it should be the one that had been adopted as the standard of comparison , prices ...
... fall . Any circumstances that might lessen the demand for an ar- ticle , would tend to lessen its value when compared with other commodities ; and if it should be the one that had been adopted as the standard of comparison , prices ...
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accumulation acres advantages agriculture amount annum applied average bank Bank of England Britain bushels canals capitalist cause cent commodities compelled condition consequence constant constantly increasing corn cost cotton cultivation diminished diminution dollars employed employment enabled Encyclopædia Britannica England equal estimated exchange exist expenditure expense export farm fertile land former France give greater half hundred quarters Ibid improvement increase of population India inferior soils interest invested Ireland latter laws less machinery manufactures marriages Massachusetts ment millions nearly necessary obtain paid period persons Political Economy possession pounds pounds sterling present product of labour profits proportion purchase quantity of labour rail roads rate of profit raw produce received rendered rent return to labour revenue rupees Scotland security of person square mile subsistence supposed taxes tends tion tivation trade United wages wealth wheat whole yield
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Seite 15 - In the name of God, amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign Lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Seite 15 - God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Seite 315 - Men are much more likely to discover easier and readier methods of attaining any object when the whole attention of their minds is directed towards that single object than when it is dissipated among a great variety of things. But in consequence of the division of labour...
Seite 205 - Corn is not high because a rent is paid, but a rent is paid because corn is high ; and it has been justly observed, that no reduction would take place in the price of corn, although landlords should forego the whole of their rent.
Seite 315 - ... the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of time, which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and, lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Seite 466 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of. both the Poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil.
Seite 195 - ... in which there is an abundance of rich and fertile land, a very small proportion of which is required to be cultivated for the support of the actual population, or indeed can be cultivated with the capital which the population can command, there will be no rent; for no one would pay for the use of land, when there was an abundant quantity not yet appropriated and, therefore, at the disposal of whosoever might choose to cultivate it.
Seite 64 - We will suppose the means of subsistence in any country just equal to the easy support of its inhabitants. The constant effort towards population, which is found to act even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
Seite 192 - Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.
Seite 466 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.