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... labour defined 1133 15 16 3. Does nature contribute more to the efficacy of labour in some occu- pations than in others ? 17 4. Some natural agents limited , others practically unlimited , in quantity . 17 CHAPTER II . Of Labour as an ...
... labour defined 1133 15 16 3. Does nature contribute more to the efficacy of labour in some occu- pations than in others ? 17 4. Some natural agents limited , others practically unlimited , in quantity . 17 CHAPTER II . Of Labour as an ...
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... labour , without assignable bounds . Capital is the result of saving 5. Alf capital is consumed 6. Capital is kept up , not by preservation , but by perpetual repro- duction 7. Why countries recover rapidly from a state of devastation 8 ...
... labour , without assignable bounds . Capital is the result of saving 5. Alf capital is consumed 6. Capital is kept up , not by preservation , but by perpetual repro- duction 7. Why countries recover rapidly from a state of devastation 8 ...
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... labour , and appropriate natural objects . culinary process , which are operations requiring a certain degree of human labour . The amount of transformation which natural substances undergo be- fore being brought into the shape in which ...
... labour , and appropriate natural objects . culinary process , which are operations requiring a certain degree of human labour . The amount of transformation which natural substances undergo be- fore being brought into the shape in which ...
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... labour and sufferings of slaves were thought worth economizing , the greater part of this bodily exertion was rendered unnecessary , by contriv- ing that the upper stone should be made to revolve upon the lower , not by human strength ...
... labour and sufferings of slaves were thought worth economizing , the greater part of this bodily exertion was rendered unnecessary , by contriv- ing that the upper stone should be made to revolve upon the lower , not by human strength ...
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... Labour , then , in the physical world , is always and solely employed in put- ting objects in motion ; the ... labour . § 3. Some writers have raised the question , whether nature gives more assistance to labour in one kind of industry ...
... Labour , then , in the physical world , is always and solely employed in put- ting objects in motion ; the ... labour . § 3. Some writers have raised the question , whether nature gives more assistance to labour in one kind of industry ...
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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.