The Vested Interests and the State of the Industrial ArtsHuebsch, 1919 - 183 psl. |
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The Vested Interests and the State of the Industrial Arts– ("The Modern ... Thorstein Veblen Visos knygos peržiūra - 1919 |
The Vested Interests and the State of the Industrial Arts– ("The Modern ... Thorstein Veblen Visos knygos peržiūra - 1919 |
The Vested Interests and the State of the Industrial Arts– ("The Modern ... Thorstein Veblen Visos knygos peržiūra - 1919 |
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Adam Smith business concern business enterprise businesslike management capitalised circumstances classes common commonly community's constituent principles corporate capital corporation finance counted course disallowance divine right duction dustrial earning-capacity economic effect efficiency eighteenth century fact free bargaining free income gible habits of thought habitually immaterial imponderables indus industrial arts industrial system iness intangible assets investors knowledge and belief law and custom less Let Live Live and Let margin material science means mechanical mechanistic ment modern point national establishment national pretensions nature net margin order of industry ordinary output owners perquisites persons point of view principles of self-help product over cost productive capacity question reasonable restraint of trade rule of Live sabotage scheme securities self-determination stabilised standardised system of law taken tangible assets tangible performance tariff technological knowledge tion trade traffic will bear unearned income usufruct vested interests vested rights wealth workmen
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