Descriptive Economics: An Introduction to Economic ScienceWilliams & Rogers, 1895 - 248 páginas |
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Descriptive Economics; Louis Lafayette] 1841-1919 [Williams,Fernando E. [From Old Catalog] Rogers Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
Términos y frases comunes
agricultural artisan balance of trade bank barter become capital carnivorous plants chapter character civilization clothing coin coinage commerce condition craft cultivation demand depend division of employments dollar domestic animals economic activity economic isolation economic knowledge economic stage employer employes existence fact family stage Field agriculture frequently getting a living gold grains growth herbivores higher hunter illustrate increase Indian individual industrial revolution industrial society interest Knights of Labor labor land manufactures means medium of exchange ment monopolies municipal natural monopolies nature nomadic nomadic band nomic organization ownership paper money pastoral population possession primitive procure profits protection purpose regulations relates serfdom shoes silver social soil sources of subsistence stage of economics struggle supply surplus tea bricks territory theory things tion town Trades Unions tribes union United various village community wages
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Página 139 - This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle...
Página 61 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Página 233 - Governments some plan of arbitration for the settlement of disagreements and disputes that may hereafter arise between them, and for considering questions relating to the improvement of business intercourse and means of direct communication between said countries, and to encourage such reciprocal commercial relations as will be beneficial to all and secure more extensive markets for the products of each of said countries.
Página 174 - ... the human species would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Página 35 - It is accordingly probable that the great epochs of human progress have been identified, more or less directly, with the enlargement of the sources of subsistence.
Página 58 - Of the past the old man's thoughts were, And the maiden's of the future. He was thinking, as he sat there, Of the days when with such arrows He had struck the deer and bison. On the Muskoday, the meadow; Shot the wild goose, flying southward, On the wing, the clamorous Wawa; Thinking of the great war-parties, How they came to buy his arrows, Could not fight without his arrows.
Página 93 - Syde's agent wished to be paid in ivory, of which I had none; but I found that Mohammed ibn Salib had ivory, and wanted cloth. Still, as I had no cloth, this did not assist me greatly until I heard that Mohammed ibn Gharib had cloth and wanted wire. This I fortunately possessed. So I gave...
Página 115 - Origin of the Merchant Gild The merchant gild, or hanse, for the words are used synonymously, was a society formed primarily for the purpose of obtaining and maintaining the privilege of carrying on trade — a privilege which implied the possession of a monopoly of trade in each town by the gild brethren as against its other inhabitants, and also liberty to trade in other towns.
Página 132 - Each was a body of burghers who identified the right to carry on an independent trading or industrial occupation with the right of burgess-ship; who imposed restrictions on the acquisition of citizenship, with the object of protecting the interests of those already enjoying it ; who acted together by market regulation and inter-municipal negotiation to secure every advantage they could over rival boroughs...
Página 210 - ... and war is threatened. By and by, when the loss of trade is felt, negotiation is tried. An envoy is selected who is of high rank in his own tribe, and, if possible, connected with the other tribe by marriage. He is usually a quiet man of fluent speech. Wearing white eagle feathers in his head-dress as a mark of peace, he departs in a small canoe. Only one female attendant, generally an old slave, accompanies him, to assist in paddling, as the natives never risk two men on such occasions. The...