Outlines of Political Economy: Being a Republication of the Article Upon that Subject Contained in the Edinburgh Supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Together with Notes Explanatory and Critical, and a Summary of the ScienceWilder & Campbell, 1825 - Broj stranica: 188 |
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... cultivated only as a source of amusement , without any view to utility . Political Economy is exclusively conversant with objects which come within the observation of every man , and which are continually modified by human interference ...
... cultivated only as a source of amusement , without any view to utility . Political Economy is exclusively conversant with objects which come within the observation of every man , and which are continually modified by human interference ...
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... cultivation of the soil was almost en- tirely carried on by slaves , belonging to the landlord , and em- ployed on his account . The mass of Roman citizens were either engaged in the military service , † or derived a precarious and de ...
... cultivation of the soil was almost en- tirely carried on by slaves , belonging to the landlord , and em- ployed on his account . The mass of Roman citizens were either engaged in the military service , † or derived a precarious and de ...
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... cultivation - has proved exceed- ingly unfavourable to its progress , and has generated a disposi- tion to distrust its best established conclusions . This prejudice is , however , extremely ill - founded ; and notwithstanding the di ...
... cultivation - has proved exceed- ingly unfavourable to its progress , and has generated a disposi- tion to distrust its best established conclusions . This prejudice is , however , extremely ill - founded ; and notwithstanding the di ...
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... cultivated- the harbours , roads , and bridges , that have been constructed- the cities and edifices that have been raised - are all the fruit of a saving of income , and establish , in despite of a thousand individual instances of ...
... cultivated- the harbours , roads , and bridges , that have been constructed- the cities and edifices that have been raised - are all the fruit of a saving of income , and establish , in despite of a thousand individual instances of ...
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... cultivate friendship with each other . We have already referred to Mr. Mun's treatise , entitled Eng- Mr. Mun land's Treasure by Foreign Trade . This treatise was first pub- lished in 1664 ; but there is good reason to suppose that it ...
... cultivate friendship with each other . We have already referred to Mr. Mun's treatise , entitled Eng- Mr. Mun land's Treasure by Foreign Trade . This treatise was first pub- lished in 1664 ; but there is good reason to suppose that it ...
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OUTLINES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY J. R. (John Ramsay) 1789-186 McCulloch,John M'Vickar Pregled nije dostupan - 2016 |
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Stranica 160 - There is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed: there is another which has no such effect. The former, as it produces a value, may be called productive; the latter, unproductive labour.
Stranica 108 - He is liable, in consequence, to be frequently without any. What he earns, therefore, while he is employed, must not only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding" moments which the thought of so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion.
Stranica 161 - It is, as it were, a certain quantity of labour stocked and stored up, to be employed, if necessary, upon some other occasion. That subject, or, what is the same thing, the price of that subject, can afterwards, if necessary, put into motion a quantity of labour equal to that which had originally produced it.
Stranica 171 - 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.
Stranica 161 - Like the declamation of the actor, the harangue of the orator, or the tune of the musician, the work of all of them perishes in the very instant of its production.
Stranica 161 - The labour of some of the most respectable orders in the society is like that of menial servants, unproductive of any value, and does not fix or realize itself in any permanent subject or vendible commodity, which endures after that labour is past, and for which an equal quantity of labour could afterwards be procured.
Stranica 161 - The labour of the latter, however, has its value, and deserves its reward as well as that of the former. But the labour of the manufacturer fixes and realizes itself in some particular subject or vendible commodity, which lasts for some time at least after that labour is past.
Stranica 161 - Though the manufacturer has his wages advanced to him by his master, he, in reality, costs him no expense...
Stranica 121 - Corn is not high because a rent is paid, but a rent is paid because corn is high...