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... desires that his treatise should be more than a mere exposition of the abstract doctrines of Political Economy , he is also desirous that such an exposition should be found in it . The present edition is an exact transcript from the ...
... desires that his treatise should be more than a mere exposition of the abstract doctrines of Political Economy , he is also desirous that such an exposition should be found in it . The present edition is an exact transcript from the ...
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... desire of accu- mulation 3. Examples of deficiency in the strength of this desire 4. Exemplification of its excess CHAPTER XII . Of the Law of the Increase of Production from Land . 1. The limited quantity and limited productiveness of ...
... desire of accu- mulation 3. Examples of deficiency in the strength of this desire 4. Exemplification of its excess CHAPTER XII . Of the Law of the Increase of Production from Land . 1. The limited quantity and limited productiveness of ...
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... desire , is made prosperous or ( the reverse . Not that any treatise on Political Economy can discuss or even enumerate all these causes ; but it undertakes to set forth as much as is known of the laws and principles ac- cording to ...
... desire , is made prosperous or ( the reverse . Not that any treatise on Political Economy can discuss or even enumerate all these causes ; but it undertakes to set forth as much as is known of the laws and principles ac- cording to ...
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... desire . Now , money is itself that power ; while all other things , in a civilized state , seem to confer it only by their capacity of being exchanged for money . To possess any other arti- cle of wealth , is to possess that par ...
... desire . Now , money is itself that power ; while all other things , in a civilized state , seem to confer it only by their capacity of being exchanged for money . To possess any other arti- cle of wealth , is to possess that par ...
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... desire , which best answers to the idea of wealth . An absurdity , however , does not cease to be an absurdity when we have dis- covered what were the appearances which made it plausible ; and the Mer- cantile Theory could not fail to ...
... desire , which best answers to the idea of wealth . An absurdity , however , does not cease to be an absurdity when we have dis- covered what were the appearances which made it plausible ; and the Mer- cantile Theory could not fail to ...
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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
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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.