Conversations on Political Economy: In which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly ExplainedLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1839 - 416 pagina's |
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Pagina iv
... Adam Smith , of Mr. Malthus , M. Say , M. Sismondi , Mr. Ricardo , and Mr. Blake , that the author has not thought it necessary to load these pages with repeated acknowledgments and incessant references . It will immediately be ...
... Adam Smith , of Mr. Malthus , M. Say , M. Sismondi , Mr. Ricardo , and Mr. Blake , that the author has not thought it necessary to load these pages with repeated acknowledgments and incessant references . It will immediately be ...
Pagina 5
... Adam Smith , whose name is never uttered without such veneration , that I was induced one day to look into his work on Political Economy to gain some information on the subject of corn , but what with forestalling , regrating , duties ...
... Adam Smith , whose name is never uttered without such veneration , that I was induced one day to look into his work on Political Economy to gain some information on the subject of corn , but what with forestalling , regrating , duties ...
Pagina 12
... Adam Smith , who may be considered as the father of this science , several very excellent works have been since published , by Mr. Say , Mr. Ricardo , Mr. Mal- thus , Mr. Sismondi , Mr. Senior , and others ; but it is true that they are ...
... Adam Smith , who may be considered as the father of this science , several very excellent works have been since published , by Mr. Say , Mr. Ricardo , Mr. Mal- thus , Mr. Sismondi , Mr. Senior , and others ; but it is true that they are ...
Pagina 59
... Adam Smith observes , that " in lone houses and very small villages , which are scattered about in so " desert a country as the Highlands of Scotland , every " farmer must be butcher , baker , and brewer for his " own family . In such ...
... Adam Smith observes , that " in lone houses and very small villages , which are scattered about in so " desert a country as the Highlands of Scotland , every " farmer must be butcher , baker , and brewer for his " own family . In such ...
Pagina 60
... Adam Smith , the merits of which you will now be able to appreciate . 66 66 " Observe the accommodation of the most common " artificer or day - labourer in a civilised and thriving " country , and you will perceive that the number of ...
... Adam Smith , the merits of which you will now be able to appreciate . 66 66 " Observe the accommodation of the most common " artificer or day - labourer in a civilised and thriving " country , and you will perceive that the number of ...
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66 CAROLINE accumulation Adam Smith advantage afford agriculture amongst augmentation better bills bills of exchange branch of industry bread capitalist certainly circulating circulating capital civilisation cloth lettered commerce commodities consequence considered consumed corn cost of production cultivation demand for labour depreciation derived diminish distress division of labour Edition effect employed enable England equal exchangeable value expense export farm farmer foreign gold and silver improvement income increase inferior soils interest J. C. LOUDON labouring classes landed property landlord laws less luxury machinery maintenance manufactures means ment merchants natural value necessary observed obtain plenty political economy poor population Portugal possession procure proportion proprietor purchase quantity raise the price rate of profit rate of wages raw produce render rent rich rise Russia savage scarce scarcity sell shillings Spain specie subsistence supply suppose surplus things tion tivation trade true value of money vols wealth whilst workmen
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Pagina 63 - One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head ; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations ; to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper ; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct...
Pagina 63 - Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently...
Pagina 62 - But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades.
Pagina 142 - And while he sinks without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave ! Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And e'en the bare-worn common is denied.
Pagina 392 - The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth; His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green...
Pagina 62 - ... the accommodation of an European prince does not always so much exceed that of an industrious and frugal peasant, as the accommodation of the latter exceeds that of many an African king, the absolute master of the lives and liberties of ten thousand naked savages.