Essays on Political Economy: In which are Illustrated the Principal Causes of the Present National Distress; with Appropriate RemediesLongmans, 1830 - 463 頁 |
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... is more or less suitable in kind , and in its proper proportions to supply , or to purchase what will supply the wants and desires of those for whose use B and benefit it is intended , will be the greater Preliminary CONTENTS.
... is more or less suitable in kind , and in its proper proportions to supply , or to purchase what will supply the wants and desires of those for whose use B and benefit it is intended , will be the greater Preliminary CONTENTS.
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... desire , this produce would perish sooner than most other commodities ; the effect would then be the same as if the surplus had never existed . Were the surplus produce employed in maintaining labourers who improved land , to what good ...
... desire , this produce would perish sooner than most other commodities ; the effect would then be the same as if the surplus had never existed . Were the surplus produce employed in maintaining labourers who improved land , to what good ...
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... desires , and he gives in exchange his labour , which adds to the sum , or to the value of necessaries , conveniences , or luxuries . The extent of all national wealth must always depend upon the fitness and due proportion of the ...
... desires , and he gives in exchange his labour , which adds to the sum , or to the value of necessaries , conveniences , or luxuries . The extent of all national wealth must always depend upon the fitness and due proportion of the ...
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... desires to sell to other nations , and to limit the productions to be received in return . Exchanges cannot be carried on with- out receiving as well as giving a proper equivalent . Unless a proper equivalent be received in return for ...
... desires to sell to other nations , and to limit the productions to be received in return . Exchanges cannot be carried on with- out receiving as well as giving a proper equivalent . Unless a proper equivalent be received in return for ...
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... desires to reside in a house , and to use clothing , not inferior in appearance to what are enjoyed by others , whom he regards as equals . Were these , however , the only motives which stimulate mankind to industry , they would proceed ...
... desires to reside in a house , and to use clothing , not inferior in appearance to what are enjoyed by others , whom he regards as equals . Were these , however , the only motives which stimulate mankind to industry , they would proceed ...
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第 65 頁 - This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the 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.
第 403 頁 - The capital employed in purchasing foreign goods for home consumption, when this purchase is made with the produce of domestic industry, replaces too, by every such operation, two distinct capitals; but one of them only is employed in supporting domestic industry. The capital which sends British goods to Portugal, and brings back Portuguese goods to Great Britain, replaces, by every such operation, only one British capital. The other is a Portuguese one.
第 403 頁 - ... one part of the country in order to sell in another the produce of the industry of that country, generally replaces by every such operation TWO distinct capitals that had both been employed in the agriculture or manufactures of that country, and thereby enables them to continue that employment.
第 284 頁 - ... produce for immediate use and consumption; or, thirdly, in transporting either the rude or manufactured produce from the places where they abound to those where they are wanted; or, lastly, in dividing particular portions of either into such small parcels as suit the occasional demands of those who want them. In the first way are employed the capitals of all those who undertake the improvement or cultivation of lands, mines, or fisheries; in the second, those of all master manufacturers; in the...
第 286 頁 - If a poor workman was obliged to purchase a month's or six months provisions at a time, a great part of the stock which he employs as a capital in the instruments of his trade, or in the furniture of his shop, and which yields him a revenue, he would be forced to place in that part of his stock which is reserved for immediate consumption, and which yields him no revenue.
第 68 頁 - The habit of sauntering and of indolent careless application, which is naturally or rather necessarily acquired by every country workman who is obliged to change his work and his tools every half hour, and to apply his hand in twenty different ways almost every day of his life, renders him almost always slothful and lazy, and incapable of any vigorous application even on the most pressing occasions.
第 1 頁 - THE annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
第 400 頁 - That the revenue of the ensuing year will not fall short of that received in the one now expiring there are indications which can scarcely prove deceptive. In our country an uniform experience of forty years has shown that whatever the tariff of duties upon articles imported from abroad has been, the amount of importations has always borne an average value nearly approaching to that of the exports, though occasionally differing in the balance, sometimes being more and sometimes less. It is, indeed,...
第 287 頁 - He is thereby enabled to employ almost his whole stock as a capital. He is thus enabled to furnish work to a greater value ; and the profit which he makes by it in this way much more than...
第 65 頁 - ... is owing to three different circumstances : first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman ; secondly, to the saving of the 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 labor, and enable one man to do the work of many.