A Treatise on Political Economy: Or, The Production, Distribution and Consumption of WealthJ. Grigg, 1827 - 455 páginas |
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... circumstances has traced up their ultimate laws or prin- ciples . Accordingly , the author of this treatise , by pursuing the in- ductive method of investigation has , in the most strict and philo- sophical manner , demonstrated the ...
... circumstances has traced up their ultimate laws or prin- ciples . Accordingly , the author of this treatise , by pursuing the in- ductive method of investigation has , in the most strict and philo- sophical manner , demonstrated the ...
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... circumstance has not pro- duced the difference noticed in their several results ? A light fea- ther is seen to mount in the air , and sometimes remain there for a long time before it falls back to the ground . Would it not ...
... circumstance has not pro- duced the difference noticed in their several results ? A light fea- ther is seen to mount in the air , and sometimes remain there for a long time before it falls back to the ground . Would it not ...
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... circumstances presented to us . A knowledge of principles furnishes the only certain means of uniformly conducting any inquiry with success . Political Economy , in the same manner as the exact sciences , is composed of a few ...
... circumstances presented to us . A knowledge of principles furnishes the only certain means of uniformly conducting any inquiry with success . Political Economy , in the same manner as the exact sciences , is composed of a few ...
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... circumstances , which observation vainly attempts to appreciate , that these problems , from not being stated with all their conditions , absolutely defy These considerations respecting the nature and object of Po- litical INTRODUCTION ...
... circumstances , which observation vainly attempts to appreciate , that these problems , from not being stated with all their conditions , absolutely defy These considerations respecting the nature and object of Po- litical INTRODUCTION ...
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... circumstance , which , in any way , could and ought to affect the decision , were known . What would be said of a party passing rapidly in front of a large castle , that should undertake to give an ac- count of every thing that is going ...
... circumstance , which , in any way , could and ought to affect the decision , were known . What would be said of a party passing rapidly in front of a large castle , that should undertake to give an ac- count of every thing that is going ...
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Página 118 - The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Página 34 - This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another ; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Página 192 - Equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal value to the labourer. In his ordinary state of health, strength, and spirits, in the ordinary degree of his skill and dexterity, he must always lay down the same portion of his ease, his liberty, and his happiness.
Página 192 - Of these, indeed, it may sometimes purchase a greater and sometimes a smaller quantity; but it is their value which varies, not that of the labour which purchases them.
Página xv - Under a system of perfectly free commerce, each country naturally devotes its capital and labour to such employments as are most beneficial to each. This pursuit of individual advantage is admirably connected with the universal good of the whole. By stimulating industry, by rewarding ingenuity, and by using most efficaciously the peculiar powers bestowed by nature, it distributes labour most effectively and most economically : while, by increasing the general mass of productions, it diffuses general...
Página 295 - The liberal reward of labour, as it encourages the propagation, so it increases the industry of the common people. The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives.
Página 388 - Public services are never better performed than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and . is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them.
Página 192 - Labour was the first price, the original purchasemoney that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.
Página 279 - It seems absurd at first sight that we should despise their persons, and yet reward their talents with the most profuse liberality. While we do the one, however, we must of necessity do the other. Should the public opinion or prejudice ever alter with regard to such occupations, their pecuniary recompense would quickly diminish.
Página xv - ... the most effectual plan for advancing a people to greatness, is to maintain that order of things which nature has pointed out; by allowing every man, as long as he observes the rules of justice, to pursue his own interest in his own way, and to bring both his industry and his capital into the freest competition with those of his fellow-citizens.