Political EconomyHatchard and Son, 1842 - 297 pages |
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Page viii
... rural population , let them in the name of all that is just and merciful , at once enter and pursue it till it bring us to the great result I so confidently anticipate . СНАР . I. VALUE ... CONTENTS . II . - viii PREFACE .
... rural population , let them in the name of all that is just and merciful , at once enter and pursue it till it bring us to the great result I so confidently anticipate . СНАР . I. VALUE ... CONTENTS . II . - viii PREFACE .
Page 163
... rural population . I am far from meaning to say , that all landlords in the southern moiety of England neglect the interests of the cottagers ; or that all , or nearly all landlords in the northern moiety of the kingdom pursue a right ...
... rural population . I am far from meaning to say , that all landlords in the southern moiety of England neglect the interests of the cottagers ; or that all , or nearly all landlords in the northern moiety of the kingdom pursue a right ...
Page 164
... rural parishes are distinguished , for the most part , for sobriety , industry , and that pro- vidence which arises from unwillingness to descend from a station which has afforded them from infancy the decent comforts of life . What ...
... rural parishes are distinguished , for the most part , for sobriety , industry , and that pro- vidence which arises from unwillingness to descend from a station which has afforded them from infancy the decent comforts of life . What ...
Page 165
... rural parishes which offers to labourers , who are not wanted in them , good cottages ; but only one under which men , whose services are wanted in a parish , may each get a good cottage at a low rent , and frequently enough pasturage ...
... rural parishes which offers to labourers , who are not wanted in them , good cottages ; but only one under which men , whose services are wanted in a parish , may each get a good cottage at a low rent , and frequently enough pasturage ...
Page 166
... rural population in the northern moiety of England had been in no better state than the rural population in Norfolk , Suffolk , Kent , Bucks , Berkshire , Surrey , Hampshire , Wilt- shire , and Dorsetshire , the consequences might have ...
... rural population in the northern moiety of England had been in no better state than the rural population in Norfolk , Suffolk , Kent , Bucks , Berkshire , Surrey , Hampshire , Wilt- shire , and Dorsetshire , the consequences might have ...
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3rd edition abroad admit agricultural labour amount asserts Author average rate bad harvest calico capital cardo cent Church Church of England class of soil cloth boards consequently consumed corn laws cost cottages cultivate an inferior Dantzic determined diminished districts of England dities doctrine equal equivalents of food exchangeable value export fall farmer fcap food and necessaries foreign corn free trade higher important increased inferior soil influence Ireland labour employed labour required landed proprietors landlords less lower M'Culloch manufacturing obtain ordinary rate parishes population portion price 12s Price 3d price of corn price of food price of labour principle producing capitalists profits and wages proportion quantity of labour quarters rate of profits rate of wages raw produce Rector render rent Ricardo says rural Second Edition specific quantity subsistence supply of labour suppose things Third Edition tion value of food writers yields
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Page 3 - If among a nation of hunters, for example, it usually costs twice the labour to kill a beaver which it does to kill a deer, one beaver should naturally exchange for or be worth two deer. It is natural that what is usually the produce of two days...
Page 233 - The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
Page 43 - I apprehend, be correct for me to say that rent and wages had fallen while profits had risen; for if we had an invariable standard by which to measure the value of this produce we should find that a less value had fallen to the class of labourers and landlords, and a greater to the class of capitalists, than had been given before.
Page 59 - The estimation in which different qualities of labour are held comes soon to be adjusted in the market with sufficient precision for all practical purposes, and depends much on the comparative skill of the labourer and intensity of the labour performed. The scale, when once formed, is liable to little variation. If a day's labour of a working jeweller be more valuable than a day's labour of a common labourer, it has long ago been adjusted and placed in its proper position in the scale of value.
Page 3 - That this is really the foundation of the exchangeable 1 [" Wealth of Nations," Bk. 1. v. 12 b.] V> * [Ibid., Bk. 1. v. 13 a.] value of all things, excepting those which cannot be increased by human industry, is a doctrine of the utmost importance in political economy...