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... purchase either of those advantages by the sacrifice of strict scientific reasoning . Though he desires that his treatise should be more than a mere exposition of the abstract doctrines of Political Economy , he is also desirous that ...
... purchase either of those advantages by the sacrifice of strict scientific reasoning . Though he desires that his treatise should be more than a mere exposition of the abstract doctrines of Political Economy , he is also desirous that ...
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... purchase and sale PAGE 247 248 251 6. The advances of the capitalist consist ultimately in wages of labour 252 7 ... purchasing power 265 265 4. Value a relative term . A general rise or fall of Values a contra- diction . 266 5. The laws ...
... purchase and sale PAGE 247 248 251 6. The advances of the capitalist consist ultimately in wages of labour 252 7 ... purchasing power 265 265 4. Value a relative term . A general rise or fall of Values a contra- diction . 266 5. The laws ...
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... purchasing power similar to money 317 3. Effects of great extensions and contractions of credit . Phenomena of a ... purchase 337 - 3. never does exceed the inclination to consume 338 4 Origin and explanation of the notion of general ...
... purchasing power similar to money 317 3. Effects of great extensions and contractions of credit . Phenomena of a ... purchase 337 - 3. never does exceed the inclination to consume 338 4 Origin and explanation of the notion of general ...
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... purchase them . While there were so many things to render the assumption which is the basis of the mercantile system plausi- ble , there is also some small foundation in reason , though a very insufficient one , for the distinction ...
... purchase them . While there were so many things to render the assumption which is the basis of the mercantile system plausi- ble , there is also some small foundation in reason , though a very insufficient one , for the distinction ...
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... purchases than people of careful habits , which accounts for their being popular as customers . They are , therefore , actually not able to get into their possession and destroy a quantity of wealth by any means equivalent to the ...
... purchases than people of careful habits , which accounts for their being popular as customers . They are , therefore , actually not able to get into their possession and destroy a quantity of wealth by any means equivalent to the ...
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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.