Selected Readings in EconomicsGinn, 1907 - 705 pages |
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... proportions of the American people . By far the largest collections of accurate measurements that have ever been made of men were made by the officers of the United States Sanitary Commission during the late Civil War . These statistics ...
... proportions of the American people . By far the largest collections of accurate measurements that have ever been made of men were made by the officers of the United States Sanitary Commission during the late Civil War . These statistics ...
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... proportion of actual theoretic inven- tion of institutions ; but there is abundance of opportunity for study of the sources of the institutions actually chosen , the causes of the selection , the degree of transformation by the new ...
... proportion of actual theoretic inven- tion of institutions ; but there is abundance of opportunity for study of the sources of the institutions actually chosen , the causes of the selection , the degree of transformation by the new ...
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... proportion of the plantations into the market , with the result that farms have been rapidly multiplied in this section . Since 1870 the number of farms in thirteen of the late slave states for which I have the statistics has increased ...
... proportion of the plantations into the market , with the result that farms have been rapidly multiplied in this section . Since 1870 the number of farms in thirteen of the late slave states for which I have the statistics has increased ...
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... proportion rises to 80 per cent or even higher . Connecticut , Maine , and Massachusetts , of the New England States , and Wisconsin , Michigan , and Minnesota , of the Northwestern States , show an excess of 90 per cent . The rent of ...
... proportion rises to 80 per cent or even higher . Connecticut , Maine , and Massachusetts , of the New England States , and Wisconsin , Michigan , and Minnesota , of the Northwestern States , show an excess of 90 per cent . The rent of ...
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... proportion as the dairyman weighs the milk of each cow and applies the Babcock test will he increase the supply of milk , butter , and cheese . It is merely a matter of education . Poultry is one of the steady and helpful sources of ...
... proportion as the dairyman weighs the milk of each cow and applies the Babcock test will he increase the supply of milk , butter , and cheese . It is merely a matter of education . Poultry is one of the steady and helpful sources of ...
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Page 673 - The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. Subjection of Nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalization of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground — what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive...
Page 288 - But if they had all wrought separately and independently and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day...
Page 679 - The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class. They are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative. Nay more, they are reactionary, for they try to roll back the wheel of history.
Page 671 - The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment.
Page 671 - ... natural superiors," and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment." It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — free trade. In one word, for exploitation,...
Page 107 - The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands ; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper, without injury to his neighbor, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.
Page 59 - Since the days when the fleet of Columbus sailed into the waters of the New World, America has been another name for opportunity, and the people of the United States have taken their tone from the incessant expansion which has not only been open but has even been forced upon them. He would be a rash prophet who should assert that the expansive character of American life has now entirely ceased. Movement has been its dominant fact and, unless this training has no effect upon a people, the American...
Page 113 - People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Page 295 - ... without the assistance and co-operation of many thousands, the very meanest person in a civilized country could not be provided, even according to what we very falsely imagine, the easy and simple manner in which he is commonly accommodated.
Page 681 - The essential condition for the existence and for the sway of the bourgeois class is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labour.