The Logic of Political Economy, and Other PapersTicknor and Fields, 1872 - 387 pagina's |
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... relation between supply and demand , has ruined more arguments dispersed through speeches , books , journals , than a long life could fully expose . Let us judge by analogy drawn from mathematics . If it were possible that but three ...
... relation between supply and demand , has ruined more arguments dispersed through speeches , books , journals , than a long life could fully expose . Let us judge by analogy drawn from mathematics . If it were possible that but three ...
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... relation be- tween the quantity offered for sale and the quantity demanded . That is certainly a distinction old enough to be clearly appre- hended ; and often it is clearly apprehended . Yet also , in the practical use , too often it ...
... relation be- tween the quantity offered for sale and the quantity demanded . That is certainly a distinction old enough to be clearly appre- hended ; and often it is clearly apprehended . Yet also , in the practical use , too often it ...
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... relation of Supply to Demand could by possibil- ity and that in fact it often does determine separately per se the selling price of an article . Within a few months , this monstrous idea has been assumed for true by Colonel Torrens , in ...
... relation of Supply to Demand could by possibil- ity and that in fact it often does determine separately per se the selling price of an article . Within a few months , this monstrous idea has been assumed for true by Colonel Torrens , in ...
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... RELATIONS IN LOGIC OF THE EXPRESSIONS U AND D. - THERE is no one manifestation of imbecile logic more frequent , than the disposition to find in all controversies merely verbal disputes . Very early in life I came to be aware that this ...
... RELATIONS IN LOGIC OF THE EXPRESSIONS U AND D. - THERE is no one manifestation of imbecile logic more frequent , than the disposition to find in all controversies merely verbal disputes . Very early in life I came to be aware that this ...
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... relations which previously had not been suspected . In reality we might go much further ; and of some changes in algebraic ter- minology , ( as particularly the invention of negative expo- nents , ) I should say , that they had a value ...
... relations which previously had not been suspected . In reality we might go much further ; and of some changes in algebraic ter- minology , ( as particularly the invention of negative expo- nents , ) I should say , that they had a value ...
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Pagina 118 - is that portion of the products of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil." Can this definition be sustained ? Certainly not. The word " indestructible " is liable to challenge ; and, in order that
Pagina 5 - AND FIELDS, according to the amplest extent of any power to make such a transfer that I may be found to possess by law or custom in America, I wish this transfer were likely to be of more value. But the veriest trifle, interpreted by the spirit in which I
Pagina 50 - English court. Amongst others, Evelyn saw them, and thus commemorates the spectacle: — " December 17. Early in the morning, I went into St. James's Park to see three Turkish or Asian horses, newly brought over, and now first showed to his Majesty
Pagina 114 - quarters. He would receive these wages to enable him to live just as well, and no better than, before ; for, when corn was at £ 4 per quarter, he would expend for three quarters of corn, at £4 per quarter, . . £ 12 OO And on other things, . . . 1200 When wheat -was at £4, 10s., three quarters of
Pagina 116 - the questionupon it in this shape, — " Whether the appropriation of land, and the consequent creation of rent, will occasion any variation in the relative value of commodities, independently of the quantity of labor necessary to production?" Whether, in short, the proportions between the two labors producing A and B will continue, in spite of rent, to determine the prices of A and
Pagina 319 - 26* the door outside. What presumption is this? exclaimed the chairman, immediately leaping up. However, on opening the door, it appeared that the fury of the summons was dictated by no failure in respect, but by absolute necessity : necessity has no law ; and any more reverential knocking could have had no chance of being audible.
Pagina 112 - other things," by alleging (p. 97) that " in rich countries a laborer, by the sacrifice of a very small quantity only of his food, is able to provide liberally for all his other wants.
Pagina 113 - is peculiar to Ricardo in his theory of wages : — 10* " When wheat was at £ 4 per quarter, suppose the laborer's wages to be £ 24 per annum, or the value of six quarters of wheat, and suppose half his wages to be expended on wheat, and the other half (or £ 12) on other things, he would receive
Pagina 332 - would the Count Fitz-Hum be pleased to take supper? But this question the Count Fitz-Hum referred wholly to the two ladies ; and for this one night he notified his pleasure that no other company should be invited. Precisely at eleven o'clock the party sat down to supper, which was served on the round table in the
Pagina 274 - of Ali; but the Turks, with the utter shamelessness to which they had been brought by daily familiarity with treachery the most barefaced, were openly descanting to Samuel upon the unheardof tortures which must be looked for at the hands of Ali, by a soldier who had given so much trouble to that Pacha