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... 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 notes ...
... 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 notes ...
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... notes be confined to a single esta- blishment ? 408 6. Should the holders of notes be protected in any peculiar manner against failure of payment ?. 409 CHAPTER XXV . Of the Competition of different Countries in the same Market . § 1 ...
... notes be confined to a single esta- blishment ? 408 6. Should the holders of notes be protected in any peculiar manner against failure of payment ?. 409 CHAPTER XXV . Of the Competition of different Countries in the same Market . § 1 ...
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... Note to Wakefield's edition of Adam Smith , vol . i . D. 26 . place , and in the same way . The savages of New Holland never help each other , even in the most simple operations ; and their condition is hardly superior , in some ...
... Note to Wakefield's edition of Adam Smith , vol . i . D. 26 . place , and in the same way . The savages of New Holland never help each other , even in the most simple operations ; and their condition is hardly superior , in some ...
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... Notes of a Traveller , pp . 299 et seqq . rotations , valuable stock and imple ments , all belong exclusively to large farms , worked by large capital , and by hired labour . This reads very well ; but if we raise our eyes from their ...
... Notes of a Traveller , pp . 299 et seqq . rotations , valuable stock and imple ments , all belong exclusively to large farms , worked by large capital , and by hired labour . This reads very well ; but if we raise our eyes from their ...
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... Notes of a Traveller , p . 351. A similar system exists in the French Jura . See , for full details , Lavergne , Rural Economy of France , 2nd ed . , pp . 139 et seqq . One of the most remarkable points in this interesting case of ...
... Notes of a Traveller , p . 351. A similar system exists in the French Jura . See , for full details , Lavergne , Rural Economy of France , 2nd ed . , pp . 139 et seqq . One of the most remarkable points in this interesting case of ...
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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.