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The effects of that diminution in the productive powers of industry , which is supposed to be indicated by increasing rents , reach , it is said , the owners of capital , in the shape of a dwindling rate of profits ; and thus their own ...
The effects of that diminution in the productive powers of industry , which is supposed to be indicated by increasing rents , reach , it is said , the owners of capital , in the shape of a dwindling rate of profits ; and thus their own ...
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First , there is assumed a constantly decreasing power in agricultural industry , as nations multiply and become more civilized : then , that those who procure subsistence by manual toil , the laboring classes of the earth ...
First , there is assumed a constantly decreasing power in agricultural industry , as nations multiply and become more civilized : then , that those who procure subsistence by manual toil , the laboring classes of the earth ...
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The decline in the rate of profit , which it is admitted may be observed in the advance of population and wealth , is so far from being seen to be accompanied by a decreasing productive power of industry in any of its branches , that in ...
The decline in the rate of profit , which it is admitted may be observed in the advance of population and wealth , is so far from being seen to be accompanied by a decreasing productive power of industry in any of its branches , that in ...
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... with a scanty stock , making the first imperfect attempts at tillage ; and thence , through many an intermediate grade , to those more brilliant theatres of industry and the arts , in which mankind may be observed , enriched by the ...
... with a scanty stock , making the first imperfect attempts at tillage ; and thence , through many an intermediate grade , to those more brilliant theatres of industry and the arts , in which mankind may be observed , enriched by the ...
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... then separating themselves slowly , from the mass of laborers orlandowners with which they were before confounded ; assuming a gradually increasing share in the direction of national industry ; and influencing at last ( in a few ...
... then separating themselves slowly , from the mass of laborers orlandowners with which they were before confounded ; assuming a gradually increasing share in the direction of national industry ; and influencing at last ( in a few ...
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| Title | An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth and on the Sources of Taxation. By the Rev. Richard Jones ... 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 |
| 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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