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Página 102 - Alterations, therefore, in the cost of production of the precious metals, do not act upon the value of money except just in proportion as they increase or diminish its quantity; which cannot be said of any other commodity.
Página 68 - The same rule which regulates the relative value of commodities in one country, does not regulate the relative value of the commodities exchanged between two or more countries.
Página 27 - Prior (Thomas). Observations on coin in general. With some proposals for regulating the value of coin in Ireland.
Página 66 - Oastler (New York, 1946), pp. 476-79. between the Master and the Adult labourer, to regulate the hours of work, expedient?" The diary of one of the participants reveals that Charles Buller, the radical philosopher, was the only member to vote in favor of such interference.1 Chadwick, Senior, Torrens, and Tooke answered the question in the negative. McCulloch admitted much of Buller's reasoning but thought the matter could...
Página 23 - The Members of this Society will regard their own mutual instruction, and the diffusion amongst others of just principles of Political Economy as a real and important obligation. As the Press is the grand instrument for the diffusion of knowledge or of error, all the Members of this Society will regard it as incumbent upon...
Página 51 - Portugal, and brings back Portuguese goods to Great Britain, replaces, by every such operation, only one British capital, the other is a Portuguese one. Though the returns, therefore, of the foreign trade of consumption should be as quick as the home trade, the capital employed in it will give but one half the encouragement to the industry or productive labour of the country.
Página 88 - Discussed. 1851.— 1st May. MR. THORNTON. — Is not the Ricardo theory of Rent unnecessarily artificial, and might not another be devised less complicated, yet equally accurate and more comprehensive ? (17). 1851.— 5th June. MR. THORNTON. — Instead of being true, as is frequently asserted, that Taxation presses with disproportionate weight on the Poor, would it not rather appear that no taxes, other than Protective duties, can permanently diminish the income of the labouring classes ? 1851.—...
Página 58 - His dexterity at his own particular trade seems, in this manner, to be acquired at the expense of his intellectual, social, and martial virtues.
Página 58 - ... of all the advantages which the more sanguine advocates of that salutary and indispensable measure appear to anticipate. The free importation of food cannot arrest that progress of improvement which is gradually raising the efficacy of foreign to an equality with the efficacy of British labour, and altering the distribution of the precious metals to the disadvantage of this country. Neither can an unrestricted admission of foreign corn enable the British manufacturer to sell his fabrics in foreign...
Página 39 - August. QUESTION DISCUSSED. — Is there any sufficient number of well-authenticated facts so far disproving the principle of the Essay on Population, as to show that Population has not an uniform tendency to increase faster than the means of Subsistence ; and that circumstances opposed to the impulse of the natural inclinations of mankind gain strength, with the advance of wealth and civilization ? Г11).

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