Principles of Political EconomyKelley, 1837 |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 29
Página 104
... pounds sterling , * or 1,350 millions of dollars , being less than one sixth of the amount above given as the value of real pro- perty of every description . It would , then , allow not six years employment of labour and capital to ...
... pounds sterling , * or 1,350 millions of dollars , being less than one sixth of the amount above given as the value of real pro- perty of every description . It would , then , allow not six years employment of labour and capital to ...
Página 105
... pounds sterling , and supposes that one half of this sum is paid for the use of capital , and the remainder for the use of the natural and inherent powers of the soil . We think , however , that it must now be evident to the reader ...
... pounds sterling , and supposes that one half of this sum is paid for the use of capital , and the remainder for the use of the natural and inherent powers of the soil . We think , however , that it must now be evident to the reader ...
Página 116
... pounds retained in Great Britain , and employed in enabling the same 1550 persons to produce corn , or cotton goods ... sterling [ $ 2 88 ] per acre , being more than double * Colonel Torrens was of opinion that land in the colony of ...
... pounds retained in Great Britain , and employed in enabling the same 1550 persons to produce corn , or cotton goods ... sterling [ $ 2 88 ] per acre , being more than double * Colonel Torrens was of opinion that land in the colony of ...
Página 119
... pounds sterling . Estimating the value at 22 years ' purchase , and we * In 1831 , the minimum price in Van Dieman's Land was fixed at 58. per acre , but until this day , ' says the editor of the Van Dieman's Land Annual , a period ' of ...
... pounds sterling . Estimating the value at 22 years ' purchase , and we * In 1831 , the minimum price in Van Dieman's Land was fixed at 58. per acre , but until this day , ' says the editor of the Van Dieman's Land Annual , a period ' of ...
Página 126
... pounds sterling , or about 180 millions of dollars . The number of labourers now employed would , at the usual rate of wages in the United States , absorb about 165 millions , leav- ing but 15 millions for the owners of capital . Their ...
... pounds sterling , or about 180 millions of dollars . The number of labourers now employed would , at the usual rate of wages in the United States , absorb about 165 millions , leav- ing but 15 millions for the owners of capital . Their ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Palavras e frases frequentes
accumulation acres advantages agriculture amount annum applied average bank Bank of England Britain bushels canals capitalist cause cent commodities compelled condition consequence constant constantly increasing corn cost cotton cultivation diminished diminution dollars employed employment enabled Encyclopædia Britannica England equal estimated exchange exist expenditure expense export farm fertile land former France give greater half hundred quarters Ibid improvement increase of population India inferior soils interest invested Ireland latter laws less machinery manufactures marriages Massachusetts ment millions nearly necessary obtain paid period persons Political Economy possession pounds pounds sterling present product of labour profits proportion purchase quantity of labour rail roads rate of profit raw produce received rendered rent return to labour revenue rupees Scotland security of person square mile subsistence supposed taxes tends tion tivation trade United wages wealth wheat whole yield
Passagens conhecidas
Página 187 - Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.
Página 10 - In the name of God, amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign Lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Página 10 - God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Página 190 - It is only, then, because land. is not unlimited in quantity and uniform in quality, and because, in the progress of population, land of an inferior quality, or less advantageously situated, is called into cultivation, that rent is ever paid for the use of it.
Página 310 - Men are much more likely to discover easier and readier methods of attaining any object when the whole attention of their minds is directed towards that single object than when it is dissipated among a great variety of things. But in consequence of the division of labour...
Página 310 - ... the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of time, which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and, lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Página 57 - We will suppose the means of subsistence in any country just equal to the easy support of its inhabitants. The constant effort towards population, which is found to act even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
Página 459 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Página 241 - ... any body politic or corporate whatsoever, erected or to be erected, or for any other persons whatsoever united or to be united in covenants or partnership, exceeding the number of six persons, in that part of Great Britain called England, to borrow, owe, or take up any sum or sums of money on their bills or notes payable at demand, or at any less time than six months from the borrowing thereof...
Página 459 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of. both the Poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil.