 | John Stuart Mill - Classical school of economics - 1909 - 1076 pages
...his profit is paid to him. The cause of profit is, that labour produces more than is required for ita support. The reason why agricultural capital yields...consequence, that if a capitalist undertakes to feed the labourers on condition of receiving the produce, he has 1 [The rest of this paragraph was added in... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1909 - 1086 pages
...cause ot his having a profit, but only the mode in which his profit is paid to him. The cause ofprofit is, that labour produces more than is required for...support. The reason why agricultural capital yields a pront. is because human beings can grow more food than is necessary to feed them while it is being... | |
 | Stephen Gudeman, Alberto Rivera - Business & Economics - 1990 - 224 pages
...as-reward-forabstinence argument by drawing an analogy between the house and business (pp. 416-17): The cause of profit is, that labour produces more than is required for...is necessary to feed them while it is being grown . . . from which it is a consequence, that if a capitalist undertakes to feed the labourers on condition... | |
 | Stephen Gudeman, Alberto Rivera - Business & Economics - 1990 - 224 pages
...as-reward-forabstinence argument by drawing an analogy between the house and business (pp. 416-17): The cause of profit is, that labour produces more than is required for...more food than is necessary to feed them while it is beinggrown . . . from which it is a consequence, that if a capitalist undertakes to feed the labourers... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - Marxian economics - 1993 - 426 pages
...comfort.11 Critical Assessments - Second Series 265 The passage in question begins thus: The cause of profit is, that labour produces more than is required for its support — The reason why capital yields a profit, is because food, clothing, materials and tools, last longer than the time... | |
 | Werner Stark - Business & Economics - 1998 - 96 pages
...John Stuart Mill's Principles. . - " The cause of profit," [hesays (ed. Ashley, 19o9, 416 sq.)], " is, that labour produces more than is required for its support. . . . The reason why capital yields a profit, is because food, clothing, materials, and tools, last longer than the time... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Business & Economics - 2006 - 477 pages
...a profit, but only the mode in which his profit is paid to him. The cause of profit is, that labor produces more than is required for its support. The...consequence, that If a capitalist undertakes to feed the laborers on condition of receiving the produce, he has some of it remaining for himself after replacing... | |
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The cause of profit is, that labour produces more than is required for its support. The reason why agricultural capital yields a profit, is because human beings can grow more food, than is necessary to feed them while it is being grown... 
