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... effect of demand and supply on prices - Circumstances which determine the price of an article the supply of which cannot be increased- Every article which has an exchange value is characterised by two qualities , viz . value in use and ...
... effect of demand and supply on prices - Circumstances which determine the price of an article the supply of which cannot be increased- Every article which has an exchange value is characterised by two qualities , viz . value in use and ...
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... effect of demand and supply on prices . PAGES 56-80 CHAPTER IV . On the Value of Money . The value of money is regulated by the same laws as those which determine the value of other mineral produce - The recent depreciation of silver ...
... effect of demand and supply on prices . PAGES 56-80 CHAPTER IV . On the Value of Money . The value of money is regulated by the same laws as those which determine the value of other mineral produce - The recent depreciation of silver ...
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... effect on wages of a local decline in profits - The effect on wages of increased efficiency of labour - High prices do not produce high wages -The effect of free competition on wages - Charitable dona- tions and poor - law relief ...
... effect on wages of a local decline in profits - The effect on wages of increased efficiency of labour - High prices do not produce high wages -The effect of free competition on wages - Charitable dona- tions and poor - law relief ...
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... effect of protection on wages — The French and English sugar refiners The Candlemakers ' petition - Foreign trade . advantageous to both countries only when the relative value of the commodities exchanged is different in each country ...
... effect of protection on wages — The French and English sugar refiners The Candlemakers ' petition - Foreign trade . advantageous to both countries only when the relative value of the commodities exchanged is different in each country ...
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... effects of the artificial manures which chemistry has brought within the reach of the farmer are so apparent , that it is un- necessary to dwell at length upon them . Nor need we do more than allude to the modern inventions of the ...
... effects of the artificial manures which chemistry has brought within the reach of the farmer are so apparent , that it is un- necessary to dwell at length upon them . Nor need we do more than allude to the modern inventions of the ...
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advantage agricultural produce amount Bank Charter Act bank notes Bank of England bills of exchange BOOK capital and labour capitalist causes cent cheques circumstances classes cloth College commodities competition consequently corn cost of production cotton Crown 8vo decrease demand economic economic rent effect employed employment English example exports Extra fcap farmer France FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE gold and silver GRAMMAR HISTORY Illustrations income income-tax increased industry instance J. M. D. MEIKLEJOHN King's College School labour and capital land land-tax landlord levied London and Westminster manufactured margin of cultivation modities paid panic permanent poor rate population price of agricultural production of wealth Professor quantity rate of interest rate of profit rate of wages regulated rent School Shew supply taxation Third Edition tion trade value of gold value of money W. W. SKEAT wages and profits wages of labour wages-fund Westminster Bank wheat workmen
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