Conversations on Political Economy: In which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly ExplainedLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1839 - 416 sider |
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Side 89
... raw materials ; then from the labourer it is returned to the master , in the form of produce or workmanship of increased value ; but the latter does not realise his profits until this produce is sold to the public , by which it is ...
... raw materials ; then from the labourer it is returned to the master , in the form of produce or workmanship of increased value ; but the latter does not realise his profits until this produce is sold to the public , by which it is ...
Side 165
... produce must , besides the wages of labour , and profit of capital , pay the rent of the land on which it is raised . But this will not be the case with manufactured goods . MRS . B. The raw materials for manufactures are all , or ...
... produce must , besides the wages of labour , and profit of capital , pay the rent of the land on which it is raised . But this will not be the case with manufactured goods . MRS . B. The raw materials for manufactures are all , or ...
Side 185
... raw materials for manufactures ; it is the earth which supplies the produce with which our clothes are made and our houses built . MRS . B. Yet without manufactures these materials would not be produced ; it is the demand of the ...
... raw materials for manufactures ; it is the earth which supplies the produce with which our clothes are made and our houses built . MRS . B. Yet without manufactures these materials would not be produced ; it is the demand of the ...
Side 200
... PRODUCE CAUSES OF RENT : 1. THE FERTILITY OF THE EARTH ; 2. DIVERSITY OF ... RAW PRO- DUCE NECESSARY TO PROPORTION THE DEMAND TO THE SUPPLY . CAROLINE ... produce from the same capital than merchants or manufacturers , but that the ...
... PRODUCE CAUSES OF RENT : 1. THE FERTILITY OF THE EARTH ; 2. DIVERSITY OF ... RAW PRO- DUCE NECESSARY TO PROPORTION THE DEMAND TO THE SUPPLY . CAROLINE ... produce from the same capital than merchants or manufacturers , but that the ...
Side 212
... raw produce ; for every quartern of corn , and loaf of bread , whether grown on the finest soils at the least cost of production , or yielded by land the most unfavourably circumstanced , will fetch the same price in the market ...
... raw produce ; for every quartern of corn , and loaf of bread , whether grown on the finest soils at the least cost of production , or yielded by land the most unfavourably circumstanced , will fetch the same price in the market ...
Almindelige termer og sætninger
66 CAROLINE accumulation Adam Smith advantage afford agriculture amongst augmentation better bills bills of exchange branch of industry bread capitalist certainly circulating circulating capital civilisation cloth lettered commerce commodities consequence considered consumed corn cost of production cultivation demand for labour depreciation derived diminish distress division of labour Edition effect employed enable England equal exchangeable value expense export farm farmer foreign gold and silver improvement income increase inferior soils interest J. C. LOUDON labouring classes landed property landlord laws less luxury machinery maintenance manufactures means ment merchants natural value necessary observed obtain plenty political economy poor population Portugal possession procure proportion proprietor purchase quantity raise the price rate of profit rate of wages raw produce render rent rich rise Russia savage scarce scarcity sell shillings Spain specie subsistence supply suppose surplus things tion tivation trade true value of money vols wealth whilst workmen
Populære passager
Side 63 - 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...
Side 63 - Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently...
Side 62 - But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades.
Side 142 - And while he sinks without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave ! Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And e'en the bare-worn common is denied.
Side 392 - The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth; His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green...
Side 62 - ... the accommodation of an European prince does not always so much exceed that of an industrious and frugal peasant, as the accommodation of the latter exceeds that of many an African king, the absolute master of the lives and liberties of ten thousand naked savages.