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... decrease in the productive powers of agriculture , and in the gains of the productive classes , and comes ever with loss and distress in its train : - And that the interests of the land- lords which require such an increase , are ...
... decrease in the productive powers of agriculture , and in the gains of the productive classes , and comes ever with loss and distress in its train : - And that the interests of the land- lords which require such an increase , are ...
Page xi
... decreasing fertility of the soil , on an unchangeable law of nature , was pressing them unceasingly towards either misery or guilt . They were endowed , as a part of their phy- sical constitution , with a power and tendency to multiply ...
... decreasing fertility of the soil , on an unchangeable law of nature , was pressing them unceasingly towards either misery or guilt . They were endowed , as a part of their phy- sical constitution , with a power and tendency to multiply ...
Page xii
... decreasing power in agricul- tural industry , as nations multiply and become more civilized : then , that those who procure subsistence by manual toil , the laboring classes of the earth , are maintained exclusively on funds saved from ...
... decreasing power in agricul- tural industry , as nations multiply and become more civilized : then , that those who procure subsistence by manual toil , the laboring classes of the earth , are maintained exclusively on funds saved from ...
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... decreasing productive power of industry in any of its branches , that in countries in which profits are low , as England and Holland , there industry is found in the most efficient state , and the rate at which capital is accumulating ...
... decreasing productive power of industry in any of its branches , that in countries in which profits are low , as England and Holland , there industry is found in the most efficient state , and the rate at which capital is accumulating ...
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... decreasing rate of profits . Rents , Wages and Profits thus examined , the last division of our subject will be in sight , " The sources of Taxation . " We shall here appeal first to history and facts , to dissipate the error which has ...
... decreasing rate of profits . Rents , Wages and Profits thus examined , the last division of our subject will be in sight , " The sources of Taxation . " We shall here appeal first to history and facts , to dissipate the error which has ...
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| Title | An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth and on the Sources of Taxation. By the Rev. Richard Jones ..., Volume 1 An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth, and on the Sources of Taxation, Richard Jones Books for college libraries Issue 26666 of Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature "Essay on the distribution of wealth ... Part I.--Rent." |
| Author | Richard Jones |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1831 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 May 2008 |
| Length | 329 pages |
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