The Economics of ProgressT.F. Unwin, 1918 - 298 psl. |
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Adam Smith agricultural alike analysis avowed better birth-rate bullion capital values cited command of wealth Corn Laws death-rate debt demand doctrine Econ economic rent economic science economists England English ethical export fact families foreign France Francis Place Free Trade further Germany historical idle idle class income increase industry infanticide interest investment John Mill labour labour power land less levy limitation Malthus Malthusian manufactures means ment method Mill mines moral nationalisation natural never over-population Political Economy population Principles problem production Professor Marshall profit progress question realise reason recognised regards rent Ricardian Ricardo royalties scientific scrip secure simply Smith social subsistence supply supposed tariff tariffist tax on capital taxation tend theory things tion truth unearned unemployment W. J. Ashley wages whole wool workers yield
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223 psl. - Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death: The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.
122 psl. - 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.
222 psl. - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
59 psl. - England's Improvement by Sea and Land. To out-do the Dutch without Fighting, to Pay Debts without Moneys, to set at work all the Poor of England with the Growth of our own Lands.
103 psl. - ... since improvements which do not diminish employment on the whole, almost always throw some particular class of labourers out of it, there cannot be a more legitimate object of the legislator's care than the interests of those who are thus sacrificed to the gains of their fellow-citizens and of posterity.
77 psl. - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes.
41 psl. - The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all countries the laboring classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them. There cannot be a better security against a superabundant population.
77 psl. - It is only in the backward countries of the world that increased production is still an important object : in those most advanced, what is economically needed is a better distribution, of which one indispensable means is a stricter restraint on population.
250 psl. - ... to the melancholy conclusion that we are fast approaching, if we have not already attained, the utmost limit of our greatness ; and that a long decay is .destined to precede the fall of the British empire. During that period our population will remain stationary or recede ; our courage will, perhaps, abate ; our wealth will certainly diminish...
42 psl. - But their most vital fault was that they did not see how liable to change are the habits and institutions of industry.