 | English literature - 1831 - 632 pages
...they equal in their influence on the sum of human enjoyment ? Who can doubt that slavery is a means of increasing the quantity of exchangeable wealth...a means of augmenting the mass of human happiness ? The economists have hitherto, we believe without exception, considered wealth to increase in proportion... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - Economics - 1837 - 1158 pages
...be, in all probability, to a certain extent, a means of increasing the quantity of exchangeable value in the world ; but will any one recommend it as a...degradation and suffering of those who produce it. * • • The science of wealth may just as frequently lead to what will injure as what will benefit... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - Business & Economics - 1840 - 290 pages
...be, in all probability, to a certain extent, a means of increasing the quantity of exchangeable value in the world ; but will any one recommend it as a...degradation and suffering of those who produce it. * * • The science of wealth may just as frequently lead to what will injure as what will benefit... | |
 | George Poulett Scrope - Economics - 1873 - 492 pages
...sum of human enjoyment ? Even Slavery itself may be in all probability, to a certain extent, a means of increasing the quantity of exchangeable wealth...value. In this sense increase of wealth assuredly is no certain measure of the increase of enjoyment ; and the science of wealth, if the attention be confined... | |
 | Terry Peach - Economics - 2003 - 370 pages
...they equal in their influence on the sum of human enjoyment? Who can doubt that slavery is a means of increasing the quantity of exchangeable wealth...a means of augmenting the mass of human happiness? The economists have hitherto, we believe without exception, considered wealth to increase in proportion... | |
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each affording to the landlord a fair rent, and each, moreover, furnishing employment and abundance to an honest farmer, and a tribe of contented cottagers. Both may be equally valuable, but are they equal in their influence on the sum of human enjoyment... 