Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, Volume 1J. W. Parker and son, 1857 - 606 pages |
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accumulation Adam Smith advantage agricultural amount applied ascendant community bricklayers buying capitalist circulating capital condition considerable consumed consumption cultivation dealers degree diminished dity division of labour duction ductive effect employment England equivalent exertion exist expenditure expense farmer farms favourable fixed capital flax funds greater gross produce human hundred quarters improvement income increase individual industry instruments instruments of production kind labour employed labouring classes land laws less limited luxuries machinery maintain mankind manufacture manure materials means ment modes nations natural agents necessary objects obtained occupations operations paid persons plough political economy population portion possession present principle productive consumers productive labourers productive power profit proportion proprietors purpose quantity remuneration render require rich saving society soil subsistence sufficient sumers supply suppose surplus taxes things thousand pounds tion unless unproductive velvet wages wants wealth whole workmen