Principles of political economy, deduced from the natural laws of social welfare, and applied to the present state of BritainLongman, 1833 - 457 pages |
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Page ix
... arts and sciences , fail in obtaining much regard , to the discomfiture of their wondering teachers and professors . The prevail- ing stream of thought and argument sets towards questions of deeper moment , of more urgent and immediate ...
... arts and sciences , fail in obtaining much regard , to the discomfiture of their wondering teachers and professors . The prevail- ing stream of thought and argument sets towards questions of deeper moment , of more urgent and immediate ...
Page xiii
... Art , science and literature have made , and are daily making , corresponding ad- vances . The mechanical arts , especially , have moved forward with unexampled celerity ; inven- : tion has succeeded invention , until the facilities for ...
... Art , science and literature have made , and are daily making , corresponding ad- vances . The mechanical arts , especially , have moved forward with unexampled celerity ; inven- : tion has succeeded invention , until the facilities for ...
Page xiv
... art and science are adding daily to the stock of superfluities ; while food , the staff of life , seems to be stationary , not to say retrograde , in the rate of its supply . This is not as it should be . There is something wrong ' When ...
... art and science are adding daily to the stock of superfluities ; while food , the staff of life , seems to be stationary , not to say retrograde , in the rate of its supply . This is not as it should be . There is something wrong ' When ...
Page 40
... art of managing the resources of a society to the best advantage of its members . It does not , however , as has been already explained , embrace the moral and reli- gious education , the political constitution , or the personal ...
... art of managing the resources of a society to the best advantage of its members . It does not , however , as has been already explained , embrace the moral and reli- gious education , the political constitution , or the personal ...
Page 44
... artists and actors , & c . have caused much hot dispute . Mr. Malthus excludes them from the category of wealth , on ... artist , and that conferred upon a piece of cotton by a calico - printer : they are equally purchased in exchange ...
... artists and actors , & c . have caused much hot dispute . Mr. Malthus excludes them from the category of wealth , on ... artist , and that conferred upon a piece of cotton by a calico - printer : they are equally purchased in exchange ...
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accumulated Adam Smith advantages afford agriculture amount arts benefit capital circulating circumstances comforts commerce commodities condition consequently consumed continually corn CORN-LAWS cost cultivation demand division of labour duce duction duties effect employed employment enjoyment equally evils exchange exclusive exertions existence expense extent favourable fertility foreign greater happiness human improvement increase individual industry injury interest invested Ireland labouring class land landlord less likewise limited machinery manufactures ment MIXED MATHEMATICS mode monopoly moral natural justice natural laws natural right necessary numbers object obtain occupation owner parishes parties perhaps persons Political Economy poor poor-law poor-rate population portion possession present principle procure production profit proportion proportionate purchase quantity raw produce rent skill society soil sumers supply surplus surplus labour taxation things tion tithe tivation trade value of money villeins wages wealth