Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England: Popular Addresses, Notes and Other FragmentsRivingtons, 1887 - 263 páginas |
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... practical precepts of the old economists , it may be worth while once more to exhibit in its most unmis- takeable shape . " Private interest , " writes James Anderson , the Scotch farmer whose theory of rent was brought to light by his ...
... practical precepts of the old economists , it may be worth while once more to exhibit in its most unmis- takeable shape . " Private interest , " writes James Anderson , the Scotch farmer whose theory of rent was brought to light by his ...
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... practical science . Later economists , like Mill and Cairnes , have indeed modified it ; but just as the belief in a natural or divine arrangement of human instincts lent power to it at first , so an elaborate analogy between the ...
... practical science . Later economists , like Mill and Cairnes , have indeed modified it ; but just as the belief in a natural or divine arrangement of human instincts lent power to it at first , so an elaborate analogy between the ...
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... . More misleading still was the failure of ordinary economic writers to distinguish between laws and precepts , between general statements of fact and the practical maxims based upon them . It is true that writers 22 Ricardo and.
... . More misleading still was the failure of ordinary economic writers to distinguish between laws and precepts , between general statements of fact and the practical maxims based upon them . It is true that writers 22 Ricardo and.
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... practical science , journalism would . And , as a matter of fact , while affect- ing the reserved and serious air of students , political economists have all the time been found brawling in the market - place . By these various ...
... practical science , journalism would . And , as a matter of fact , while affect- ing the reserved and serious air of students , political economists have all the time been found brawling in the market - place . By these various ...
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... practical science . The better distribution which is sought for will then be found in 1 At this point the consecutive MSS . , which bears traces of being hastily written in the preceding paragraph , breaks off altogether , and there ...
... practical science . The better distribution which is sought for will then be found in 1 At this point the consecutive MSS . , which bears traces of being hastily written in the preceding paragraph , breaks off altogether , and there ...
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Adam Smith agricultural Arnold Toynbee Arthur Young artisans assertion Balliol College believe capital capitalist causes cent century Chartists Church classes co-operators common competition condition corn Corn-Laws cotton cultivated demand distribution of wealth districts economists effect employer enclosures England English existence fact factory farmers farms freedom freeholders growth hands human idea ideal importance improved increase individual industrial Industrial Revolution influence instance interest James Mill James Watt labour Lancashire land landowners living Malthus manufacturers masters mediæval merchants method Mill modern moral nature Northern Tour organisation parish pauperism Political Economy Poor Law population present principle produce profits progress question Radicals rate of wages recognise reform religion rent repeal revolution Ricardo rise Robert Owen social Socialists society spiritual theory things thought tion towns Toynbee trade Trades-Unions true union wage-fund wants Wealth of Nations whole wool woollen workmen
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Página 15 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Página 75 - The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.
Página 2 - Mr. Ricardo had deduced a priori from the understanding itself laws which first gave a ray of light into the unwieldy chaos of materials, and had constructed what had been but a collection of tentative discussions into a science of regular proportions, now first standing on an eternal basis.
Página 12 - By this wise provision," he says, " ie by making the passion of self-love beyond comparison stronger than the passion of benevolence, the more ignorant are led to pursue the general happiness, an end which they would have totally failed to attain if the moving principle of their conduct had been benevolence.
Página 183 - The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily ; and the law, besides, authorizes, or at least does not prohibit, their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen. We have no acts of parliament against combining to lower the price of work, but many against combining to raise it.
Página 192 - We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named "fair competition" and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings; we think, nothing doubting, that // absolves and liquidates all engagements of man. "My starving workers?
Página 106 - Throughout the whole of the present work I have so far differed in principle from the former, as to suppose the action of another check to population which does not come under the head either of vice or misery; and, in the latter part I have endeavoured to soften some of the harshest conclusions of the first Essay.
Página 81 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Página 90 - Passing to manufactures, we find here the all-prominent fact to be the substitution of the factory for the domestic system, the consequence of the mechanical discoveries of the time.
Página 115 - There is supposed to be, at any given instant, a sum of wealth, which is unconditionally devoted to the payment of wages of labour.