An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. With a comm. by the author of 'England and America' (E.G. Wakefield).1839 |
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... Wages of Labour ARTICLE IV . Page 234 240 252 261 271 · 282 Taxes which , it is intended , should fall indifferently upon every different Species of Revenue Capitation Taxes · Taxes upon consumable Commodities 287 287 291 CHAPTER III ...
... Wages of Labour ARTICLE IV . Page 234 240 252 261 271 · 282 Taxes which , it is intended , should fall indifferently upon every different Species of Revenue Capitation Taxes · Taxes upon consumable Commodities 287 287 291 CHAPTER III ...
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... paid from their reve- nue , whether derived from the wages of labour , the profits of stock , or the rent of land . So far as it falls upon the inhabitants , it is one of those taxes which fall , not upon one only , but indifferently ...
... paid from their reve- nue , whether derived from the wages of labour , the profits of stock , or the rent of land . So far as it falls upon the inhabitants , it is one of those taxes which fall , not upon one only , but indifferently ...
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... wages of labour , would necessarily be more or less diminished by its removal . The nations , accordingly , who have attempted to tax the revenue arising from stock , instead of any severe inquisition of this kind , have been obliged to ...
... wages of labour , would necessarily be more or less diminished by its removal . The nations , accordingly , who have attempted to tax the revenue arising from stock , instead of any severe inquisition of this kind , have been obliged to ...
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... Wages of Labour . The wages of the inferior classes of workmen , I have endeavoured to show in the first book , are everywhere necessarily regulated by two different circumstances ; the ... Wages of Labour ARTICLE IV Page 234 240 252 261.
... Wages of Labour . The wages of the inferior classes of workmen , I have endeavoured to show in the first book , are everywhere necessarily regulated by two different circumstances ; the ... Wages of Labour ARTICLE IV Page 234 240 252 261.
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... wages . But in order to leave him such free wages after paying such a tax , the price of labour must in that place soon rise , not to twelve shillings a week only , but to twelve and sixpence ; that is , in order to enable him to pay a ...
... wages . But in order to leave him such free wages after paying such a tax , the price of labour must in that place soon rise , not to twelve shillings a week only , but to twelve and sixpence ; that is , in order to enable him to pay a ...
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Страница 141 - The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects, too, are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
Страница 141 - In the progress of the division of labour [employments], the employment of the far greater part of those who live by labour, that is, of the great body of the people, comes to be confined to a few very simple operations ; frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments.
Страница 291 - By necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without.
Страница 214 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Страница 111 - The endowments of schools and colleges have necessarily diminished more or less the necessity of application in the teachers. Their subsistence, so far as it arises from their salaries, is evidently derived from a fund altogether independent of their success and reputation in their particular professions.
Страница 151 - The more they are instructed, the less liable they are to the delusions of enthusiasm and superstition, which, among ignorant nations, frequently occasion the most dreadful disorders. An instructed and intelligent people, besidesj are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and Stupid one.
Страница 217 - Secondly, it may obstruct the industry of the people, and discourage them from applying to certain branches of business which might give maintenance -and employment to great multitudes. While it obliges the people to pay, it may thus diminish, or VOL. v. u perhaps destroy, some of the funds which might enable them more easily to do so.
Страница 2 - According to the system of natural liberty, the sovereign has only three duties to attend to — three duties of great importance, indeed, but plain and intelligible to common understandings: first, the duty of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies; secondly, the duty of protecting, as far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice or oppression of every other member of it or the duty of establishing an exact administration of justice;...
Страница 283 - Every increase or diminution of capital, therefore, naturally tends to increase or diminish the real quantity of industry, the number of productive hands, and consequently the exchangeable value of the annual produce of the land and labour of the country, the real wealth and revenue of all its inhabitants.
Страница 39 - Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor...