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 xxi
... Manufactures - Commerce . - Progress , Subdivisions , and utility of each . Their community of interest , and equal importance . - Preference awarded to Agricul- с xxi Page 136 164 217 ture owing to the unnatural existing relations of ...
... Manufactures - Commerce . - Progress , Subdivisions , and utility of each . Their community of interest , and equal importance . - Preference awarded to Agricul- с xxi Page 136 164 217 ture owing to the unnatural existing relations of ...
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George Poulett Scrope. CONTENTS . xxiii Page CHAPTER XIV . - RESTRAINTS ON MANUFACTURES.- Taxes on raw materials . - Excise duties . - Factory - bill 353 CHAPTER XV . - RESTRAINTS ON COMMERCE . - Restric- tions on Exchanges . - Fallacy ...
George Poulett Scrope. CONTENTS . xxiii Page CHAPTER XIV . - RESTRAINTS ON MANUFACTURES.- Taxes on raw materials . - Excise duties . - Factory - bill 353 CHAPTER XV . - RESTRAINTS ON COMMERCE . - Restric- tions on Exchanges . - Fallacy ...
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... manufacture , abstracts an equal amount of employment from our native in- dustry ; -these , and many others that might be mentioned , are theoretical doctrines of the falsest and most injurious character , taken up by nume- rous persons ...
... manufacture , abstracts an equal amount of employment from our native in- dustry ; -these , and many others that might be mentioned , are theoretical doctrines of the falsest and most injurious character , taken up by nume- rous persons ...
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... manufacture of that article , will make two or three thousand nails in a day ; where an ordinary smith , who only turned his hand occasionally to this process , could make but as many hundreds . A man who wanted such a common thing as a ...
... manufacture of that article , will make two or three thousand nails in a day ; where an ordinary smith , who only turned his hand occasionally to this process , could make but as many hundreds . A man who wanted such a common thing as a ...
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... manufactures are performed , exceeds what the human hand could , by those who had never seen them , be supposed capable of acquiring . Secondly , the saving of time . An individual who carries on many different employments in places ...
... manufactures are performed , exceeds what the human hand could , by those who had never seen them , be supposed capable of acquiring . Secondly , the saving of time . An individual who carries on many different employments in places ...
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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