Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England: Popular Addresses, Notes and Other FragmentsRivingtons, 1887 - 263 páginas |
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... trade , of sound principles of currency , of the modification ( if not the abolition ) of the Poor Law , as the straitest of the sect . He would not have denied the famous Theory of Rent , nor would he have confounded an extension of ...
... trade , of sound principles of currency , of the modification ( if not the abolition ) of the Poor Law , as the straitest of the sect . He would not have denied the famous Theory of Rent , nor would he have confounded an extension of ...
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... trade . Neither was he slow to recognise the sacrifices which the upper classes , and especially the landed ... trades , and at different times and places ; Political Economy seemed to assume that these rates of progress were always the ...
... trade . Neither was he slow to recognise the sacrifices which the upper classes , and especially the landed ... trades , and at different times and places ; Political Economy seemed to assume that these rates of progress were always the ...
Página xiii
... trade or exchange is one of the simplest , and may be the thread to guide us through all the rest ) . Neither was he always consistent in his appreciation of the great economist , Ricardo , whose famous treatise he greatly admired , and ...
... trade or exchange is one of the simplest , and may be the thread to guide us through all the rest ) . Neither was he always consistent in his appreciation of the great economist , Ricardo , whose famous treatise he greatly admired , and ...
Página xxxiv
... Trades - Tendency to concentration - State of the mechanical arts - Imperfect division of labour - Means of com- munication - Organisation of industry - Simple system of exchange- Growth of Foreign Trade and its effects , V. ENGLAND IN ...
... Trades - Tendency to concentration - State of the mechanical arts - Imperfect division of labour - Means of com- munication - Organisation of industry - Simple system of exchange- Growth of Foreign Trade and its effects , V. ENGLAND IN ...
Página xxxv
... trade and industry - Restrictions upon the movement of labour - The law of apprentices - Wages and prices fixed by authority - The regulation of Foreign Trade - Chartered companies - The Mercantile System and Protection - Evils of that ...
... trade and industry - Restrictions upon the movement of labour - The law of apprentices - Wages and prices fixed by authority - The regulation of Foreign Trade - Chartered companies - The Mercantile System and Protection - Evils of that ...
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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
Pasajes populares
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.