 | David Ricardo - Economics - 1821 - 560 pages
...desirable, because its effect would be, if pushed very far, to render all classes equally poor. But in poor countries, where there are abundant means of production...better security against a superabundant population. In those countries, where the labouring classes have the fewest wants, and are contented with the cheapest... | |
 | J. C. Ross - Economics - 1827 - 486 pages
...over-peopled state of society, if such a state could ever, by possibi lity, have place on this earth. The friends of humanity cannot but wish, that in all countries the labourers should be enabled to acquire a proper share of comforts and enjoyments ; and that they should... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - Chennai (India) - 1830 - 478 pages
...disposable capital of 500/.; but until it is augmented, I cannot pay 1000/. to labourers. P. 95. " The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments. There cannot be a better security against a superabundant population." P. 101. " When wages rise, it... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - India - 1830 - 472 pages
...disposable capital of 500/.; but until it is augmented, I cannot pay 1000/. to labourers. P. 95. " The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments. There cannot be a better security against a superabundant population." P. 101. " When wages rise, it... | |
 | Joseph Salway Eisdell - Economics - 1839 - 456 pages
...to which, it is thought, the market rate of wages must usually be proportioned. Mr. Ricardo says, " The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...better security against a superabundant population." * Mr. M'Culloch observes, " When wages are considerably reduced, the poor are obliged to submit to... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Industrial relations - 1852 - 142 pages
...change in this respect between Adam Smith and Ricardo. " The friends of humanity," he says again, " cannot but wish that in all countries the labouring...better security against a superabundant population. In those countries where the labouring classes have the fewest wants, and are contented with the cheapest... | |
 | Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett - Economics - 1876 - 286 pages
...of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it. Ricardo says on this subject: — "The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...better security against a super-abundant population." Malthus on Population. Malthus, in his celebrated essay on population, shewed that there is a constant... | |
 | Earl Thomas Brassey Brassey - Great Britain - 1879 - 466 pages
...the labourer should seek to establish a high standard of living. Mr. Eicardo has most truly said : ' The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to living. 1850 1874 Wheat, per bushel of 60 Ibs. Indian Corn, „ 56 Ibs. Pork, per 100 Ibs. . 1«. 2d.... | |
 | David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch - Economics - 1886 - 688 pages
...desirable, because its effect would be, if pushed very far, to render all classes equally poor. But in poor countries, where there are abundant means of production...better security .against a superabundant population. In those countries, where the labouring classes have the fewest wants, and are contented with the cheapest... | |
 | Alfred Marshall - Economics - 1890 - 808 pages
...life'. i Principles, Ch. v. a It may be well to quote his words. " The friends of humanity cannot bnt wish that in all countries the labouring classes should...better security against a superabundant population. In those countries, where the labouring classes have the fewest wants, and are contented with the cheapest... | |
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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... 
