Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy

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Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1866 - 591 pages

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Contents

I
15
II
19
III
28
IV
34
V
39
VI
57
VII
63
VIII
71
XLI
303
XLII
307
XLIV
309
XLV
316
XLVII
328
XLVIII
336
XLIX
341
L
344

X
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XI
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XII
100
XIV
108
XV
117
XVI
123
XVII
133
XVIII
145
XX
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XXI
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XXII
155
XXIII
171
XXIV
183
XXV
193
XXVI
199
XXVII
207
XXVIII
218
XXIX
225
XXX
233
XXXI
245
XXXII
255
XXXIII
264
XXXIV
268
XXXV
274
XXXVI
277
XXXVII
285
XXXVIII
290
XXXIX
293
XL
297
LI
347
LII
352
LIII
367
LVI
370
LVII
374
LVIII
380
LIX
385
LX
394
LXI
410
LXII
416
LXIII
421
LXIV
424
LXV
430
LXVI
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LXVII
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LXVIII
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LXX
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LXXI
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LXXII
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LXXIII
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LXXV
504
LXXVI
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LXXVII
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LXXVIII
526
LXXIX
531
LXXX
536
LXXXI
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LXXXII
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Page 76 - One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations; to put it on is a peculiar business; to whiten the pins is another; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which in some manufactories are all performed by distinct hands,...
Page 454 - It is scarcely necessary to remark that a stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There would be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress ; as much room for improving the Art of Living, and much more likelihood of its being improved, when minds ceased to be engrossed by the art of getting on.
Page 128 - If, therefore, the choice were to be made between Communism with all its chances, and the present state of society •with all its sufferings and injustices; if the institution of private property...
Page 484 - First, the levying of it may require a great number of officers, whose salaries may eat up the greater part of the produce of the tax, and whose perquisites may impose another additional tax upon the people.
Page 556 - THE ONLY CASE IN WHICH, ON MERE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, PROTECTING DUTIES CAN BE DEFENSIBLE, Is when they are imposed temporarily (especially in a young and rising nation) in hopes of naturalizing a foreign industry, in itself perfectly suitable to the circumstances of the country. The superiority of one country over another in a branch of production, often arises only from having begun it sooner. There may be no inherent advantage on one part, or disadvantage on the other, but only a present...
Page 556 - ... continued for a reasonable time, will sometimes be the least inconvenient mode in which the nation can tax itself for the support of such an experiment. But the protection should be confined to cases in which there is good ground of assurance that the industry which it fosters will after a time be able to dispense with it ; nor should the domestic producers ever be allowed to expect that it will be continued to them beyond the time necessary for a fair trial of what they are capable of accomplishing.
Page 171 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 123 - It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.
Page 484 - Fourthly, by subjecting the people to the frequent visits and the odious examination of the tax-gatherers, it may expose them to much unnecessary trouble, vexation, and oppression...
Page 460 - In the present stage of human progress, when ideas of equality are daily spreading more widely among the poorer classes, and can no longer be checked by anything short of the entire suppression of printed discussion and even of freedom of speech, it is not to be expected that the division of the human race into two hereditary classes, employers and employed, can be permanently maintained.

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