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... enable one country to undersell another 2. Low wages one of those causes 3 . when peculiar to certain branches of industry 4. but not when common to all -- 5. Some anomalous cases of trading communities examined . CHAPTER XXVI . Of ...
... enable one country to undersell another 2. Low wages one of those causes 3 . when peculiar to certain branches of industry 4. but not when common to all -- 5. Some anomalous cases of trading communities examined . CHAPTER XXVI . Of ...
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... enable them to support life until an- other harvest . Under the régime in question , though the bulk of the popu- lation are ill provided for , the govern- ment , by collecting small contributions from great numbers , is enabled , with ...
... enable them to support life until an- other harvest . Under the régime in question , though the bulk of the popu- lation are ill provided for , the govern- ment , by collecting small contributions from great numbers , is enabled , with ...
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... enable them to do which , a great portion of the powers of government are usually made over simultaneously , to be exer- cised by them until either the districts are redeemed , or their receipts have liquidated the debt . Thus , the com ...
... enable them to do which , a great portion of the powers of government are usually made over simultaneously , to be exer- cised by them until either the districts are redeemed , or their receipts have liquidated the debt . Thus , the com ...
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... enable any considerable community to sup- port itself wholly by agriculture . A country like England or France is only able to carry on the agriculture of the present year , because that of past years has provided , in those countries ...
... enable any considerable community to sup- port itself wholly by agriculture . A country like England or France is only able to carry on the agriculture of the present year , because that of past years has provided , in those countries ...
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... enabled them to ad- vance the funds needful for the business of distribution . 7. We have now completed the ... enable him to become a labourer in his turn . To the com- munity at large , the labour and ex- pense of rearing its ...
... enabled them to ad- vance the funds needful for the business of distribution . 7. We have now completed the ... enable him to become a labourer in his turn . To the com- munity at large , the labour and ex- pense of rearing its ...
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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.