The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volumes 20-21W. Collins, 1836 |
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Page 49
... demand for food , there will also be an increase of demand for other things , or the pro- ducts of other manufactures . But these manu- factures have to wait the progress of agriculture , which itself has to wait for nothing but the de ...
... demand for food , there will also be an increase of demand for other things , or the pro- ducts of other manufactures . But these manu- factures have to wait the progress of agriculture , which itself has to wait for nothing but the de ...
Page 51
... demand , being strait- ened within boundaries which itself cannot en- large ; the other widening the boundaries of its demand , and in the very proportion too of every new addition which is made to its own quantity . The simple cause of ...
... demand , being strait- ened within boundaries which itself cannot en- large ; the other widening the boundaries of its demand , and in the very proportion too of every new addition which is made to its own quantity . The simple cause of ...
Page 378
... demand for it ; not so as to keep up its price , for then the very stimulus of the augment- ing demand would be done away - but so as to prevent the depression of wages from coming sud- denly to 378 STATE AND PROSPECTS OF MANUFACTURES .
... demand for it ; not so as to keep up its price , for then the very stimulus of the augment- ing demand would be done away - but so as to prevent the depression of wages from coming sud- denly to 378 STATE AND PROSPECTS OF MANUFACTURES .
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