The Dismal Science: A Criticism on Modern English Political EconomyM.H. Gill & son, 1882 - 236 páginas |
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abstract Adam Smith admit America amongst amount argument articles of wealth authority Baden-Powell Bonamy Price Canada capital and population certainly chap Cobden Club commodities consumed controversy Current Economy deductive definition definition of Capital differences of opinion Dismal Science doctrine eminent England English Economists Essays &c examine exchange exist exports extent fact farmer Free Trade controversy important increase industry Ireland Irish J. S. Mill labour and capital labourers are maintained land law of wages maintained from capital Malthus manufactures meaning method Mill objections observes Political Economy practical present Principles &c production of wealth Professor Cairnes Professor Jevons Professor Price Professor Thompson Profit Progress and Poverty proposition Protection question rate of wages ratio between capital referred regard rent result Ricardo seems sense South Wales tariff teachings term maintained theorem things tion true truth universal Free Trade Victoria wages depend Wages Fund Wealth of Nations
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Página 13 - 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...
Página 62 - Capital is that part of the wealth of a country which is employed in production, and consists of food, clothing, tools, raw materials, machinery, etc., necessary to give effect to labour.
Página 63 - What capital does for production, is to afford the shelter, protection, tools and materials which the work requires, and to feed and otherwise maintain the labourers during the process.
Página 42 - If, then, good land existed in a quantity much more abundant than the production of food for an increasing population required, or if capital could be indefinitely employed without a diminished return on the old land, there could be no rise of rent; for rent invariably proceeds from the employment of an additional quantity of labour with a proportionally less return.
Página 63 - The distinction, then, between Capital and Not-capital, does not lie in the kind of commodities, but in the mind of the capitalist — in his will to employ them for one purpose rather than another ; and all property, however ill adapted in itself for the use of labourers, is a part of capital, so soon as it, or the value to be received from it, is set apart for productive reinvestment.
Página 27 - Wages, then, depend mainly upon the demand and supply of labour; or, as it is often expressed, on the proportion between population and capital. By population is here meant the number only of the labouring class, or rather of those who work for hire; and by capital, only circulating capital, and not even the whole of that, but the part which is expended in the direct purchase of labour.
Página 5 - To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to provide man with what he requires while he continues to be man. The aim of the Platonic philosophy was to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to supply our vulgar wants. The former aim was noble ; but the latter was attainable.
Página 13 - In the meantime, we may, without attempting to limit the ultimate capabilities of human nature, affirm, that the political economist, for a considerable time to come, will be chiefly concerned with the conditions of existence and progress belonging to a society founded on private property and individual competition...
Página 212 - When natural causes are liable to be set aside and neutralized by what is called volition, the word Science is out of place. If it is free to man to choose what he will do or not do, there is no adequate science of him. If there is a science of him, there is no free choice, and the praise or blame with which we regard one another are impertinent and out of place.