E Butler - The condensed wealth of nations

... 11 labour of a great multitude of workmen. The shepherd, the sorter of the wool, the wool-comber or carder, the dyer, the scribbler, the spinner, the weaver, the fuller, the dresser, with many others, ... profits of the baker and the wages of the baker’s staff. However many people are involved in a productive process, the costs always resolve themselve...

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2014, 13:46

... the progress of improvement. The rise of their nominal price is the effect, not of any degradation of the value of silver, but of the rise in their real price. Different Effects of the Progress ... continues to decrease The increase of the wealth of Europe, and the popular notion, that as the quantity of the pre- cious metals naturally increases wit...

Ngày tải lên: 17/08/2013, 09:58

... or Commonwealth 921 Chapter I. Of the Expenses of the Sovereign or Commonwealth 922 PART 1 922 Of the Expense of Defence 922 PART 2 946 Of the Expense of Justice 946 PART 3 963 Of the Expense of Public Works ... while they remain in the condition of common sailors, they receive scarce any other recompense but the pleasure of exercising the one and of surm...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 17:22

... it. The funds destined for the payment of wages, the revenue and stock of its inhabitants, may be of the greatest extent; but if they have continued for several centuries of the same, or very nearly ... has often pretended to do so. The real recompense of labour, the real quantity of the necessaries and conveniences of life which it can procure to the labourer,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/01/2014, 20:20

... the three leading questions in the volume. The central tenet of Where Is the Wealth of Nations? is embodied in chapters 4 through 7. While wealth composition may, to some extent, determine ... Without the creation of a surplus for investment there is no way for countries to escape a low-level subsistence equilibrium. Resource dependence complicates the measurement...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:21

... corn. In the price of linen we must add to this price the wages of the flaxdresser, of the spinner, of the weaver, of the bleacher, etc., together with the profits of their respective employers. ... reduce the price of the whole. The market price will sink more or less below the natural price, according as the greatness of the excess increases more...

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2014, 13:42

... future. They even encourage us toward fantasies of eternal life or, better yet, eternal youth. Yet these fantasies, when science-based, that is, based on reality, are the dreams of the rich ... on the one hand, ebullient pleasure seeking on the other); while the infant discipline of anthropology in the nineteenth century presumed to demonstrate the effects of ge...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 13:52

... machine, the shears with which the shepherd clips the wool. The miner, the builder of the furnace for smelting the ore the feller of the timber, the burner of the charcoal to be made use of in the ... require alike five per cent. both upon the advanced price of the linen-yarn, and upon the wages of the weavers. In raising the price of commodi...

Ngày tải lên: 31/08/2012, 12:29

... adopted a model of war as a duel between states, entered into by mutual consent, thereby justifying the alternate label of the ‘duelling’ view of war. It rejected another of the basic tenets of ... risks with them. Generals often avoided pitched battles where possible because of the risk of the destruction of their forces at a fell swoop. As an alternative, war of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:02