Manual of Political EconomyMacmillan and Company, 1876 - 631 Seiten |
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... wealth - The civilization of a country determines to what extent its natural resources can be classed as wealth - Fallacies now known as the Mercantile System explained .PAGES 3-9 CHAPTER II . The Requisites of Production . The ...
... wealth - The civilization of a country determines to what extent its natural resources can be classed as wealth - Fallacies now known as the Mercantile System explained .PAGES 3-9 CHAPTER II . The Requisites of Production . The ...
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... Wealth can only perform the functions of capital by being wholly or partially consumed - Foregoing principles illustrated by examples - The rapidity with which a country recovers from a devastating war explained - The consequences of ...
... Wealth can only perform the functions of capital by being wholly or partially consumed - Foregoing principles illustrated by examples - The rapidity with which a country recovers from a devastating war explained - The consequences of ...
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... wealth cannot be increased , unless either land , labour , or capital , is increased - In the absence of agricultural improve- ments , more land is not brought into cultivation , unless the value of agricultural produce is increased ...
... wealth cannot be increased , unless either land , labour , or capital , is increased - In the absence of agricultural improve- ments , more land is not brought into cultivation , unless the value of agricultural produce is increased ...
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... wealth implies the existence of rights of property , and the rights of property cannot be maintained without law - Property has not the same rights in one age or country as in another ; for instance , the privilege of entailing property ...
... wealth implies the existence of rights of property , and the rights of property cannot be maintained without law - Property has not the same rights in one age or country as in another ; for instance , the privilege of entailing property ...
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Henry Fawcett. CHAPTER II . The Classes among whom Wealth is distributed . Wealth is distributed between rent , wages , and profits : these three shares represent respectively the value of the services rendered to the production of wealth ...
Henry Fawcett. CHAPTER II . The Classes among whom Wealth is distributed . Wealth is distributed between rent , wages , and profits : these three shares represent respectively the value of the services rendered to the production of wealth ...
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Adam Smith advantages agricultural produce American civil war annually Australia bank notes Bank of England bills bills of exchange BOOK cause cent chapter circulating capital circulation circumstances classes coal commodities consequently considerable cooperative cotton creased Crown 8vo cultivation demand depreciation diminished duction Edition effect employed employers England English exchange exerted export farm farmer fcap foreign France greater important improvements income income-tax increased India individual influence instance invested iron labour and capital land landlord laws less levied loan machinery manufactured ment metayer nation obtained paid particular pauperism peasant political economy population portion possess precious metals principle production of wealth proprietors purchase quantity rate of interest rate of profit realised regard remarked remuneration rent revenue rise sacks of wheat saved silver society sumer supply supposed taxation tenant tion trade value of gold wage-fund wages workmen
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 519 - 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 519 - 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 520 - Thirdly, by the forfeitures and other penalties which those unfortunate individuals incur who attempt unsuccessfully to evade the tax, it may frequently ruin them, and thereby put an end to the benefit which the community might have received from the employment of their capitals.
Seite 182 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Seite 551 - Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.