Chapters on Practical Political Economy: Being the Substance of Lectures Delivered in the University of OxfordK. Paul, Trench, 1882 - 488 páginas |
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... tion of wealth . Wealth , then , is its subject , what it speaks of ; but what is wealth ? Here , again , we have a question as hard and puzzling as ever . In his first sentence , Adam Smith seems to explain wealth as " the necessaries ...
... tion of wealth . Wealth , then , is its subject , what it speaks of ; but what is wealth ? Here , again , we have a question as hard and puzzling as ever . In his first sentence , Adam Smith seems to explain wealth as " the necessaries ...
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... tion of crops to adopt , and yet these are the very things which produce , which bring forth , the crop of wheat , which is the wealth desired . Nor does it explain to the makers of iron , or of woollen or cotton cloths , or of ships ...
... tion of crops to adopt , and yet these are the very things which produce , which bring forth , the crop of wheat , which is the wealth desired . Nor does it explain to the makers of iron , or of woollen or cotton cloths , or of ships ...
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... tion may be had from the reading of a book , which a little wealth could have procured , than from a multitude of mere luxuries . There are better things than to be rich : there are others , by the side of which riches ought to count as ...
... tion may be had from the reading of a book , which a little wealth could have procured , than from a multitude of mere luxuries . There are better things than to be rich : there are others , by the side of which riches ought to count as ...
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... tion may be had from the reading of a book , which a little wealth could have procured , than from a multitude of mere luxuries . There are better things than to be rich : there are others , by the side of which riches ought to count as ...
... tion may be had from the reading of a book , which a little wealth could have procured , than from a multitude of mere luxuries . There are better things than to be rich : there are others , by the side of which riches ought to count as ...
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... tion of whose accuracy he is so confident : - " Value is always value in exchange . Value is a relative term . The value of a thing means the quantity of some other thing , or of things in general , which it exchanges for . " This ...
... tion of whose accuracy he is so confident : - " Value is always value in exchange . Value is a relative term . The value of a thing means the quantity of some other thing , or of things in general , which it exchanges for . " This ...
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