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Page viii
... Societies - Strikes and Trades'- Unions - and The Effects of the Recent Gold Discoveries . For the convenience of the ordinary reader , and espe- cially for those who may use the book to prepare them- selves for examinations , I have ...
... Societies - Strikes and Trades'- Unions - and The Effects of the Recent Gold Discoveries . For the convenience of the ordinary reader , and espe- cially for those who may use the book to prepare them- selves for examinations , I have ...
Page xii
... society has a recognised standard of living ; if , therefore , the commodities of ordinary use are cheapened , a greater amount of capital will be saved - A large portion of the capital saved in England is invested in foreign countries ...
... society has a recognised standard of living ; if , therefore , the commodities of ordinary use are cheapened , a greater amount of capital will be saved - A large portion of the capital saved in England is invested in foreign countries ...
Page xvii
... Society was established to supply goods to cooperative stores - This society manufactures many of the goods it sells - Cooperative production - The progress of cooperative cotton mills - The question of the right of labour to a share in ...
... Society was established to supply goods to cooperative stores - This society manufactures many of the goods it sells - Cooperative production - The progress of cooperative cotton mills - The question of the right of labour to a share in ...
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... society is held together by a vast aggregation of motives and sympathies . Wealth is necessary to man's existence ; a great portion of human exertion is stimulated by the necessity to labour , in order to procure the commodities which ...
... society is held together by a vast aggregation of motives and sympathies . Wealth is necessary to man's existence ; a great portion of human exertion is stimulated by the necessity to labour , in order to procure the commodities which ...
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... Societies even compara- tively rude must be impressed with the necessity of adopting some medium of exchange . This will be readily understood by a cursory glance at the general functions which money fulfils . In the first place , money ...
... Societies even compara- tively rude must be impressed with the necessity of adopting some medium of exchange . This will be readily understood by a cursory glance at the general functions which money fulfils . In the first place , money ...
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Page 519 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Page 519 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Page 520 - Thirdly, by the forfeitures and other penalties which those unfortunate individuals incur who attempt unsuccessfully to evade the tax, it may frequently ruin them, and thereby put an end to the benefit which the community might have received from the employment of their capitals.
Page 182 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 551 - Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.