On the Principles of Political Economy, and TaxationJohn Murray, 1821 - 538 páginas |
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... wines of a peculiar quality , which can be made only from grapes grown on a particular soil , of which there is a very limited quantity , are all of this description . Their value is wholly indepen- dent of the quantity of labour ...
... wines of a peculiar quality , which can be made only from grapes grown on a particular soil , of which there is a very limited quantity , are all of this description . Their value is wholly indepen- dent of the quantity of labour ...
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... wine , his interest can be no way affected , if at one time the twenty- five pipes , and at another the fifty pipes , equally sell for 1,200l . In either case his profit will be limited to 200l. , or 20 per cent . on his capital ; % M ...
... wine , his interest can be no way affected , if at one time the twenty- five pipes , and at another the fifty pipes , equally sell for 1,200l . In either case his profit will be limited to 200l. , or 20 per cent . on his capital ; % M ...
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... wine had brought every thing to the former level . It has indeed been contended , that the great profits which are sometimes made by particular merchants in foreign trade , will elevate the gene- ral rate of profits in the country , and ...
... wine had brought every thing to the former level . It has indeed been contended , that the great profits which are sometimes made by particular merchants in foreign trade , will elevate the gene- ral rate of profits in the country , and ...
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... wine for 100l. and a certain quantity of English com- modities for 900l .; when wine fell to 50l . per pipe , I might lay out the 50l. saved , either in the purchase of an additional pipe of wine , or in the purchase of more English ...
... wine for 100l. and a certain quantity of English com- modities for 900l .; when wine fell to 50l . per pipe , I might lay out the 50l. saved , either in the purchase of an additional pipe of wine , or in the purchase of more English ...
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... wine - drinkers might either consume the commodities which were be- fore exported , or any others for which they had ... wine after profits had been raised from 20 per cent . to 40 per cent . , instead of purchasing his English goods for ...
... wine - drinkers might either consume the commodities which were be- fore exported , or any others for which they had ... wine after profits had been raised from 20 per cent . to 40 per cent . , instead of purchasing his English goods for ...
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Página 346 - What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.
Página 95 - The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all countries the labouring classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them. There cannot be a better security against a superabundant population.
Página 202 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Página 143 - Gold and silver having been chosen for the general medium of circulation, they are, by the competition of commerce, distributed in such proportions amongst the different countries of the world, as to accommodate themselves to the natural traffic which would take place if no such metals existed, and the trade between countries were purely a trade of barter.
Página 86 - The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
Página 460 - The chapter opens by reaffirming that it is the cost of production which must ultimately regulate the price of commodities, and not, as has been often said, the proportion between the supply and demand: the proportion between supply and demand may, indeed, for a time, affect the market value of a commodity, until it is supplied in greater or less abundance, according as the demand may have increased or diminished, but this effect will be only of temporary duration.
Página 419 - The capital employed in purchasing foreign goods for home consumption, when this purchase is made with the produce of domestic industry, replaces too, by every such operation, two distinct capitals; but one of them only is employed in supporting domestic industry.
Página 1 - The things which have the greatest value in use have frequently little or no value in exchange; and, on the contrary, those which have the greatest value in exchange have frequently little or no value in use.
Página 327 - 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 3 - The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.