Essays in EconomicsMacmillan, 1925 - 394 ページ |
他の版 - すべて表示
多く使われている語句
Adam Smith American American Economic Association applied Association attempt called canals capital capitalist century charges Chartist Christian Socialism Christian Socialists classes commission common competition coöperation corn laws cost of service demand devoted differential rates discriminations discussion doctrine duties economic economists England English equal Essay existence expenses fact fixed freight Ibid important increase individual industrial influence institutions interest labour land Lectures less London Longfield Malthus marginal utility Maurice ment method modern monopoly movement natural nomic overcapitalization Owen period Physiocrats Political Economy pools practical present problem production Professor profits progress question Railroad railway regulation rent Report result Ricardian Ricardo Robert Owen shippers short-haul social society tariffs taxation theory tion to-day Torrens trade traffic transportation United wages Walter Cooper wealth writers York
人気のある引用
217 ページ - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers or of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line, in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance...
125 ページ - I had been of some service, thought fit to reward me by employing me in printing the money ; a very profitable job and a great help to me. This was another advantage gained by my being able to write.
12 ページ - Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men.
150 ページ - We hold that the conflict of labor and capital has brought into prominence a vast number of social problems, whose solution requires the united efforts, each in its own sphere, of the church, of the state, and of science.
240 ページ - ... like and contemporaneous service in the transportation of a like kind of traffic under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, such common carrier shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimination, which is hereby prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
41 ページ - The Charter is not bad; if the men who use it are not bad! But will the Charter make you free? Will it free you from slavery to ten-pound bribes? Slavery to beer and gin? Slavery to every spouter who flatters your self-conceit, and stirs up bitterness and headlong rage in you? That, I guess, is real slavery; to be a slave to one's own stomach, one's own pocket, one's own temper.
282 ページ - Every species of government has its specific principles. Ours perhaps are more peculiar than those of any other in the universe. It is a composition of the freest principles of the English constitution, with others derived from natural right and natural reason.
77 ページ - If England should have acquired such u degree of skill in manufactures, that, with any given portion of her capital, she could prepare a quantity of cloth, for which the Polish cultivator would give a greater quantity of corn than she Could, with the same portion of capital, raise from her own soil, then, tracts of her territory, though they should be equal, nay, even though they should be superior, to the lands in Poland, will be neglected j and a part of her supply of corn will be imported from...
16 ページ - When at length a true system of Economics comes to be established, it will be seen that that able but wrong-headed man, David Ricardo, shunted the car of Economic science on to a wrong line, a line, however, on which it was further urged towards confusion by his equally able and wrong-headed admirer John Stuart Mill.
282 ページ - They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth ; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it...