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... rent 3 . -nor in the law of profits · 246 249 • 250 BOOK IV . INFLUENCE OF THE PROGRESS OF SOCIETY ON PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION . CHAPTER I. General Characteristics of a Progressive State of Wealth . § 1. Introductory Remarks 2 ...
... rent 3 . -nor in the law of profits · 246 249 • 250 BOOK IV . INFLUENCE OF THE PROGRESS OF SOCIETY ON PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION . CHAPTER I. General Characteristics of a Progressive State of Wealth . § 1. Introductory Remarks 2 ...
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... Rents , Profits , and Wages . § 1. First case ; population increasing , capital stationary 2. Second case ; capital increasing , population stationary .. 3. Third case ; population and capital increasing equally , the arts of production ...
... Rents , Profits , and Wages . § 1. First case ; population increasing , capital stationary 2. Second case ; capital increasing , population stationary .. 3. Third case ; population and capital increasing equally , the arts of production ...
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... rent - charge in favour of the public . . · 7. Taxes falling on capital , not necessarily objectionable . . 5. The increase of the rent of land from natural causes a fit subject of peculiar taxation 397 400 402 CHAPTER III . Of Direct ...
... rent - charge in favour of the public . . · 7. Taxes falling on capital , not necessarily objectionable . . 5. The increase of the rent of land from natural causes a fit subject of peculiar taxation 397 400 402 CHAPTER III . Of Direct ...
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... rent 3. -on profits • 4 . -on wages 5. An Income Tax . 6. A House Tax . CHAPTER IV . Of Taxes on Commodities . Page 404 404 405 409 411 415 § 1. A Tax on all Commodities would fall on profits 2. Taxes on particular commodities fall on ...
... rent 3. -on profits • 4 . -on wages 5. An Income Tax . 6. A House Tax . CHAPTER IV . Of Taxes on Commodities . Page 404 404 405 409 411 415 § 1. A Tax on all Commodities would fall on profits 2. Taxes on particular commodities fall on ...
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... rent to another , what he transfers is not the mere money , but a right to a cer- tain value of the produce of the country , to be selected at pleasure ; the lender having first bought this right , by giving for it a portion of his ...
... rent to another , what he transfers is not the mere money , but a right to a cer- tain value of the produce of the country , to be selected at pleasure ; the lender having first bought this right , by giving for it a portion of his ...
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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.