Political EconomyRichard Griffin., 1854 - 239 ページ |
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Adam Smith additional labour advance afford agricultural amount annual appears Archbishop Whately articles of wealth average capital capitalist causes circulating capital cloth lettered commodities consequence consider consumed consumption corn cost of production cotton Country Crown 8vo cultivation depends diminished division of labour edition employment England enjoyment equal evil exchange exertion existing expense F. D. MAURICE fact given quantity greater hundred quarters improvement increase inhabitants instruments of production JOHN STODDART labour and abstinence land landlord less limited in supply LL.D machinery manufactures materials means of subsistence millions natural agent necessary number of labourers number of persons object obstacles obtained occasion partly perhaps period Political Economy population portion possession principal proportion proposition proprietor purchase rate of profit raw produce remuneration rent result revenue rise Science society supposed tendency term things thousand tion tithes trade twenty unproductive utility wages and profits whole words
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217 ページ - One man draws out the wire; another straights it; a third cuts it; a fourth points it; a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head...
73 ページ - This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labor, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labor, and enable one man to do the work of many.
73 ページ - Men are much more likely to discover easier and readier methods of attaining any object when the whole attention of their minds is directed towards that single object than when it is dissipated among a great variety of things. But in consequence of the division of labour...
200 ページ - ... first, the agreeableness or disagreeableness of the employments themselves; secondly, the easiness and cheapness, or the difficulty and expense of learning them; thirdly, the constancy or inconstancy of employment in them; fourthly, the small or great trust which must be reposed in those who exercise them; and, fifthly, the probability or improbability of success in them.
78 ページ - A stock of goods of different kinds, therefore, must be stored up somewhere sufficient to maintain him, and to supply him with the materials and tools of his work, till such time, at least, as both these events can be brought about.
45 ページ - We will suppose the means of subsistence in any country just equal to the easy support of its inhabitants. The constant effort towards population, which is found to act even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
45 ページ - ... there are few states in which there is not a constant effort in the population to increase beyond the means of subsistence. This constant effort as constantly tends to subject the lower classes of society to distress, and to prevent any great permanent melioration of their condition.
116 ページ - But land, in almost any situation» produces a greater quantity of food than what is sufficient to maintain all the labour necessary for bringing it to market, in the most liberal way in which that labour is ever maintained. The surplus, too, is always more than sufficient to replace the stock which employed that labour, together with its profits. Something, therefore, always remains for a rent to the landlord.
63 ページ - They are a sort of instruments of trade, and may be considered in the same light: Thirdly, of the improvements of land, of what has been profitably laid out in clearing, draining, enclosing, manuring, and reducing it into the condition most proper for tillage and culture.