Capitalist Enterprise and Social ProgressG. Routledge, 1925 - 409 páginas |
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Adam Smith Adventurers bargaining Bruges burgesses burghers capital capitalist undertaking century ceteris paribus CHAPTER classless Cobdenite colonies commercial Company competition considerable cost craft craftsmen Cunningham demand dependent division of labour Econ economic England English enterprise entrepreneur existing facility of supply fact factors fairly favour feudal foreign function gains Gild groups hand Hanse Hist Ibid important income increase industry influence instance institutions interests investor J. A. Hobson J. P. Morgan journeymen labour laissez-faire Lancashire land later limited London marginal mercantile merchants merely monopoly oligarchy organization payment persons Pirenne political position possession principle of substitution privileges production Prof profits progress reason result rise secure seems sell share small masters social society struggle supply-price surplus takers tend tendency theory tion towns townsmen trade uncertainty usury wages wealth Whig wool workers
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Página 148 - It is the purpose of this work to show that the distribution of the income of society is controlled by a natural law, and that this law, if it worked without friction, would give to every agent of production the amount of wealth which that agent creates.
Página 302 - It is a nest of wasps, or swarm of vermin which have overcrept the land. I mean the Monopolies and Pollers of the people : these, like the Frogs of Egypt, have gotten possession of our dwellings, and we have scarce a room free from them. They sup in our cup.
Página 145 - They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life which would have been made had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants ; and thus, without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
Página 115 - We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines upon this account that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform, combination not to raise the wages of labor above their actual rate.
Página 265 - The ordinary means, therefore, to increase our wealth and treasure is by foreign trade, wherein we must ever observe this rule, to sell more to strangers yearly, than we consume of theirs in value...
Página 298 - ... against the natural right and liberty of the subjects of England to restrain it into the hands of some few...
Página 299 - ... governors of these companies by their monopolizing orders have so handled the matter, as that the mass of the whole trade of all the realm is in the hands of some two hundred persons at the most, the rest serving for a show only and reaping small benefit".
Página 224 - These bemoaned the slavishness of these poor servants whom their masters used rather like heathen than Christians ; yea, rather like horses than men ; early up and late in bed, and all day hard work, and harder fare (a few herrings and mouldy cheese), and all to enrich the churls, their masters, without any profit to themselves.
Página 343 - For these reasons, among others, I would never lose the hold which we now have over our great Indian dependency — by far the greatest and most valuable of all the customers we have or ever shall have in this country.
Página 173 - At a certain stage of development it brings forth the material agencies for its own dissolution. From that moment new forces and new passions spring up in the bosom of society; but the old social organisation fetters them and keeps them down. It must be annihilated ; it is annihilated. Its annihilation, the transformation of the individualised and scattered means of production into socially concentrated ones, of the pigmy property of the many into the huge property of the few, the expropriation...