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... exercises an influence on prices . Here , then , we see two things , demand and price , each depending on the other . The demand depends on the price , as the price increases the demand decreases ; and the price depends on the demand ...
... exercises an influence on prices . Here , then , we see two things , demand and price , each depending on the other . The demand depends on the price , as the price increases the demand decreases ; and the price depends on the demand ...
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... exercises a powerful influence in stimulating his industry , and the metayer tenure , though disadvantageous to land- lords , may be beneficial to the general community . The economic defect of the metayer system is that it tends to ...
... exercises a powerful influence in stimulating his industry , and the metayer tenure , though disadvantageous to land- lords , may be beneficial to the general community . The economic defect of the metayer system is that it tends to ...
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... exercise them . 5th . The probability or improbability of success in them . To these must be added the limitation of competition among the higher and lower sections or groups into which labourers are divided , which practically limits ...
... exercise them . 5th . The probability or improbability of success in them . To these must be added the limitation of competition among the higher and lower sections or groups into which labourers are divided , which practically limits ...
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... exercises a very great influence upon the wages they receive . The more trust- worthiness required the higher must be the wages given . It is essential that such persons as bankers , cashiers , jewellers ' assistants , engine - drivers ...
... exercises a very great influence upon the wages they receive . The more trust- worthiness required the higher must be the wages given . It is essential that such persons as bankers , cashiers , jewellers ' assistants , engine - drivers ...
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... exercise describing the advantages which workmen obtain from combination , and point out that in driving a bargain with their employer it is only by means of combination that they can place themselves in a posi- tion fully to protect ...
... exercise describing the advantages which workmen obtain from combination , and point out that in driving a bargain with their employer it is only by means of combination that they can place themselves in a posi- tion fully to protect ...
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A. W. VERRALL agricultural produce amount Assistant Assistant-Master Bank Bank of England BEGINNERS BOOK Cambridge capital and labour capitalist causes cent CHEMISTRY cheques Christ's College classes Clifton College commodities competition corn cost of production Crown 8vo decrease demand economic rent effect ELEMENTARY employment England English example exports Extra fcap farmer Fellow of St Fellow of Trinity formerly France Globe 8vo gold and silver Greek HISTORY income income-tax increased industry instance J. P. MAHAFFY John's College labour and capital land landlord late Fellow LATIN Lecturer levied LL.D London Macmillan's manufactured margin of cultivation Master Mathematics Owens College Oxford paid Political Economy poor rate population PRIMER principle production of wealth Professor purchase rate of profit rate of wages rent revised and enlarged School Second Edition Shew supply supposed taxation trade Translated TREATISE TRIGONOMETRY Trinity College University University of Cambridge wages and profits wages-fund workmen
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