A Treatise on Political Economy: Or, The Production, Distribution and Consumption of WealthJ. Grigg, 1827 - 455 páginas |
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... France a long time afterwards , has himself , in a very peculiar manner , pronounced his own condemnation . " A truth , " he observes , " which is brought to light by pure accident , like a mushroom in a meadow , is of no value ; we can ...
... France a long time afterwards , has himself , in a very peculiar manner , pronounced his own condemnation . " A truth , " he observes , " which is brought to light by pure accident , like a mushroom in a meadow , is of no value ; we can ...
Página xxxiv
... France the science of Political Economy , at first , was only considered in its application to public finances . Sully remarks correctly enough , that agriculture and commerce are the two teats of the state ; but from a vague and ...
... France the science of Political Economy , at first , was only considered in its application to public finances . Sully remarks correctly enough , that agriculture and commerce are the two teats of the state ; but from a vague and ...
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... of proceeding , for any length of time , with success on an improper route . * * Since the time of Dr. Smith , both in England and France , a variety of We are not , however , yet in possession of INTRODUCTION . xliii.
... of proceeding , for any length of time , with success on an improper route . * * Since the time of Dr. Smith , both in England and France , a variety of We are not , however , yet in possession of INTRODUCTION . xliii.
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... France has done itself lasting honour by establishing in this kingdom , under the sanc- tion of public authority , the first professorship of Political Economy . When the youths who are now students , shall be scattered through all the ...
... France has done itself lasting honour by establishing in this kingdom , under the sanc- tion of public authority , the first professorship of Political Economy . When the youths who are now students , shall be scattered through all the ...
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... France ; a period during which she was within reach of the high state of pros- perity she was invited to by the fertility of her soil , her geo- graphical position , and the genius of her inhabitants . With no fixed opinions in relation ...
... France ; a period during which she was within reach of the high state of pros- perity she was invited to by the fertility of her soil , her geo- graphical position , and the genius of her inhabitants . With no fixed opinions in relation ...
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abundance Adam Smith advance advantage agriculture amount annual authority balance of trade bank bank of England benefit bullion cause charge circulation coin coinage colonies commerce commodities consequently consumer consumption cultivation demand derived dities division of labour duction effect employed England equal established Europe exchange exclusive expense export fact favourable foreign France French give grain greater human import increase individual interest kind labour land less livre livres tournois loss mankind manufacture matter means ment merchant millions natural agents never object operation paid paper paper-money Political Economy portion possessed precious metals principles productive agency profit prosperity purchase quantity ratio reason received relative value revenue seignorage sestertii Smith society Spanish dollars specie sumer supply supposed thing tion trade utility wants wealth Wealth of Nations weight wheat whole worth
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Página iv - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit...
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 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 296 - A plentiful subsistence increases the bodily strength of the labourer, and the comfortable hope of bettering his condition, and of ending his days perhaps in ease and plenty, animates him to exert that strength to the utmost. Where wages are high, accordingly, we shall always find the workmen more active, diligent, and expeditious, than where they are low ; in England, for example, than in Scotland ; in the neighbourhood of great towns, than in remote country places.
Página 33 - ... life it has been the sole business to perform them, is usually much greater. The rapidity with which some of the operations of those manufactures are performed, exceeds what the human hand could, by those who had never seen them, be supposed capable of acquiring.
Página 34 - ... the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Página xv - ... binds together, by one common tie of interest and intercourse, the universal society of nations throughout the civilised world.
Página 118 - No regulation of commerce can increase the quantity of industry in any society beyond what its capital can maintain. It can only divert a part of it into a direction into which it might not otherwise have gone...
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...