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... desire . Still , this is not the sort of thing required for , of food , unless in expectation of a scarcity , no one wishes to possess more at once , than is wanted for immediate consumption ; so that a person is never sure of finding ...
... desire . Still , this is not the sort of thing required for , of food , unless in expectation of a scarcity , no one wishes to possess more at once , than is wanted for immediate consumption ; so that a person is never sure of finding ...
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... desire , being for the thing itself , may be stronger or weaker ; and the amount of what people are willing to expend on it , being in any case a limited quantity , may be affected in very unequal degrees by difficulty or facility of ...
... desire , being for the thing itself , may be stronger or weaker ; and the amount of what people are willing to expend on it , being in any case a limited quantity , may be affected in very unequal degrees by difficulty or facility of ...
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... desires to receive payment sooner , draws a bill on his debtor payable in six months , and gets the bill discounted by a banker or other money - lender , that is , trans- fers the bill to him , receiving the amount , minus interest for ...
... desires to receive payment sooner , draws a bill on his debtor payable in six months , and gets the bill discounted by a banker or other money - lender , that is , trans- fers the bill to him , receiving the amount , minus interest for ...
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... desire , like other dealers , to stretch their operations beyond what can be carried on by their own means : they wish to lend , not their capital merely , but their credit , and not only such portion of their credit as consists of ...
... desire , like other dealers , to stretch their operations beyond what can be carried on by their own means : they wish to lend , not their capital merely , but their credit , and not only such portion of their credit as consists of ...
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... desire of the holders to realize , speculative pur- chases cease : but were this all , prices would only fall to the level from which they rose , or to that which is justified by the state of the consumption and of the supply . They ...
... desire of the holders to realize , speculative pur- chases cease : but were this all , prices would only fall to the level from which they rose , or to that which is justified by the state of the consumption and of the supply . They ...
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Page 319 - There is room in the world, no doubt, and even in old countries, for a great increase of population, supposing the arts of life to go on improving, and capital to increase. But even if innocuous, I confess I see very little reason for desiring it.
Page 320 - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
Page 550 - Letting alone, in short, should be the general practice: every departure from it, unless required by some great good, is a certain evil.
Page 375 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State.
Page 6 - Money is a commodity, and its value is determined like that of other commodities, temporarily by demand and supply, permanently and on the average by cost of production.
Page 322 - ... the other. The rich should be in loco parentis to the poor, guiding and restraining them like children. Of spontaneous action on their part there should be no need. They should be called on for nothing but to do their day's work, and to be moral and religious. Their morality and religion should be provided for them by their superiors, who should see them properly taught it, and should do all that is necessary to ensure their being, in return for labour and attachment, properly fed, clothed, housed,...
Page 325 - ... when they were brought together in numbers, to work socially under the same roof; when railways enabled them to shift from place to place, and change their patrons and employers as easily as their coats; when they were encouraged to seek a share in the government, by means of the electoral franchise.
Page 374 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Page 118 - It is commerce which is rapidly rendering war obsolete, by strengthening and multiplying the personal interests which are in natural opposition to it.
Page 339 - THE form of association, however, which, if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end to predominate, is not that which can exist between a capitalist as chief and workpeople without a voice in the management, but the association of the labourers themselves on terms of equality, collectively owning the capital with which they carry on their operations, and working under managers elected and removable by themselves.