Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 62
Page xiv
... bank notes than bills . 320 5 . the distinction of little practical importance 322 6. Cheques an instrument for acting on prices , equally powerful with bank notes 324 326 7. Are bank notes money ?. 8. No generic distinction between bank ...
... bank notes than bills . 320 5 . the distinction of little practical importance 322 6. Cheques an instrument for acting on prices , equally powerful with bank notes 324 326 7. Are bank notes money ?. 8. No generic distinction between bank ...
Page xvi
... bank issues 2. Examination of each . 394 395 3. Reasons for thinking that the Currency Act of 1844 produces a part of the beneficial effect intended by it . 397 4 . but produces mischiefs more than equivalent 400 5. Should the issue of bank ...
... bank issues 2. Examination of each . 394 395 3. Reasons for thinking that the Currency Act of 1844 produces a part of the beneficial effect intended by it . 397 4 . but produces mischiefs more than equivalent 400 5. Should the issue of bank ...
Page 18
... banks of rivers or lakes , may be regarded as of un- limited abundance ; but if required for irrigation , it may even there be in sufficient to supply all wants , while in places which depend for their consump- tion on cisterns or tanks ...
... banks of rivers or lakes , may be regarded as of un- limited abundance ; but if required for irrigation , it may even there be in sufficient to supply all wants , while in places which depend for their consump- tion on cisterns or tanks ...
Page 44
... banks , benefit clubs , or some other channel ) re - em- ployed as capital , and consumed . The principle now stated is a strong example of the necessity of attention to the most elementary truths of our sub- ject : for it is one of the ...
... banks , benefit clubs , or some other channel ) re - em- ployed as capital , and consumed . The principle now stated is a strong example of the necessity of attention to the most elementary truths of our sub- ject : for it is one of the ...
Page 85
... banking , insurance , and other businesses which depend wholly on confidence , publicity is a still more important element of success than a large subscribed capital . A heavy loss occurring in a private bank may be kept secret ; even ...
... banking , insurance , and other businesses which depend wholly on confidence , publicity is a still more important element of success than a large subscribed capital . A heavy loss occurring in a private bank may be kept secret ; even ...
Contents
1 | |
3 | |
7 | |
10 | |
19 | |
57 | |
63 | |
77 | |
80 | |
96 | |
108 | |
117 | |
123 | |
133 | |
193 | |
219 | |
225 | |
233 | |
247 | |
253 | |
263 | |
274 | |
280 | |
297 | |
303 | |
313 | |
316 | |
328 | |
334 | |
341 | |
344 | |
374 | |
394 | |
410 | |
416 | |
430 | |
439 | |
446 | |
512 | |
519 | |
530 | |
536 | |
540 | |
541 | |
542 | |
545 | |
548 | |
552 | |
559 | |
561 | |
562 | |
563 | |
566 | |
567 | |
568 | |
570 | |
571 | |
572 | |
573 | |
575 | |
577 | |
579 | |
581 | |
584 | |
585 | |
589 | |
590 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accumulation Adam Smith advantage agricultural amount capital capitalist causes circulating capital commodity competition condition considerable consumed consumption cost crease cultivation degree demand depend diminished division of labour duce duction ductive effect employment England equal exertion existing expense farmer favourable flax France funds greater human hundred quarters improvement increase individual industry Ireland kind labouring classes land landlord less limited mankind manufacture manure material means ment metayer mode nations natural agents necessary obtained occupation operations paid peasant peasant proprietors persons plough Political Economy Poor Law population portion possession present principle productive labourers productive power profit proportion quantity racter rate of profit remuneration render rent require saving small farms society soil subsistence sufficient sumers supply suppose surplus tained taxes things tical tion tivation tive unless unproductive wages wealth whole
Popular passages
Page 483 - 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.
Page 573 - Letting alone, in short, should be the general practice : every departure from it, unless required by some great good, is a certain evil.
Page 556 - The only case in which, on mere principles of political economy, protecting duties can be defensible, is when they are imposed temporarily (especially in a young and rising nation) in hopes of naturalizing a foreign industry, in itself perfectly suitable to the circumstances of the country.
Page 128 - If, therefore, the choice were to be made between Communism with all its chances, and the present state of society with all its sufferings and injustices; if the institution of private property...
Page 575 - Now any wellintentioned and tolerably civilized government may think without presumption that it does or ought to possess a degree of cultivation above the average of the community which it rules, and that it should therefore be capable of offering better education and better instruction to the people, than the greater number of them would spontaneously demand. Education, therefore, is one of those things which it is admissible in principle that a government should provide for the people.