Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, Volume 2Appleton, 1893 - Economics |
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... extent . A tailor , who had nothing but coats , might starve before he could find any person having bread to sell who wanted a coat : be- sides , he would not want as much bread at a time as would be worth a coat , and the coat could ...
... extent . A tailor , who had nothing but coats , might starve before he could find any person having bread to sell who wanted a coat : be- sides , he would not want as much bread at a time as would be worth a coat , and the coat could ...
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... extent and duration to the temporary stress of business , does not raise prices , but merely prevents this fall . The sequel of our investigation will point out many other qualifications with which the proposition must be received ...
... extent and duration to the temporary stress of business , does not raise prices , but merely prevents this fall . The sequel of our investigation will point out many other qualifications with which the proposition must be received ...
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... extent been able to keep it at a higher than its natural level ; and have , thus far , removed the value of money from exclusive dependence on the causes which fix the values of things not artificially interfered with . We are , however ...
... extent been able to keep it at a higher than its natural level ; and have , thus far , removed the value of money from exclusive dependence on the causes which fix the values of things not artificially interfered with . We are , however ...
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... extent of the seignorage , above the value of the bullion . If the mint kept back one per cent , to pay the expense of coinage , it would be against the interest of the holders of bullion to have it coined , until the coin was more ...
... extent of the seignorage , above the value of the bullion . If the mint kept back one per cent , to pay the expense of coinage , it would be against the interest of the holders of bullion to have it coined , until the coin was more ...
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... extent is real , that of being able to have recourse , for replenishing the cir- culation , to the united stock of gold and silver in the com- mercial world , instead of being confined to one of them , which , from accidental absorption ...
... extent is real , that of being able to have recourse , for replenishing the cir- culation , to the united stock of gold and silver in the com- mercial world , instead of being confined to one of them , which , from accidental absorption ...
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Page 336 - I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress.
Page 395 - Every tax ought to be levied at the time or in the manner in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.
Page 339 - V( there much satisfaction in contemplating the world with nothing left to the spontaneous activity of nature; with every rood of land brought into cultivation, which is capable of growing food for human beings ; every flowery waste or natural pasture ploughed up, all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated for man's use exterminated as his rivals for food, every hedgerow or superfluous tree rooted out, and scarcely a place left where a wild shrub or flower could grow without being eradicated...
Page 395 - The certainty of what each individual ought to pay is, in taxation, a matter of so great importance, that a very considerable degree of inequality, it appears, I believe, from the experience of all nations, is not near so great an evil as a very small degree of uncertainty.
Page 569 - Laisserfaire, in short, should be the general practice : every departure from it, unless required by some great good, is a certain evil.
Page 395 - Fourthly, by subjecting the people to the frequent visits and the odious examination of the tax-gatherers, it may expose them to much unnecessary trouble, vexation, and oppression...
Page 338 - Under this twofold influence, society would exhibit these leading features: a well-paid and affluent body of labourers; no enormous fortunes, except what were earned and accumulated during a single lifetime; but a much larger body of persons than at present, not only exempt from the coarser toils, but with sufficient leisure, both physical and mental, from mechanical details, to cultivate freely the graces of life, and afford examples of them to the classes less favourably circumstanced for their...
Page 189 - Gold and silver having been chosen for the general medium of circulation, they are, by the competition of commerce, distributed in such proportions amongst the different countries of the world, as to accommodate themselves to the natural traffic which would take place if no such metals existed, and the trade between countries were purely a trade of barter.
Page 340 - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
Page 396 - Equality of taxation, therefore, as a maxim of politics, means equality of sacrifice. It means apportioning the contribution of each person towards the expenses of government, so that he shall feel neither %more nor less inconvenience from his share of the payment than every other person experiences from his.