An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth and on the Sources of Taxation. By the Rev. Richard Jones ..., Volume 1 |
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... accumulate fresh funds for the employment of labor , are always in a necessary course of gradual diminution , while cultivation is spreading itself to new soils , or multiplying its means and efforts on the old . Of the two richer ...
... accumulate fresh funds for the employment of labor , are always in a necessary course of gradual diminution , while cultivation is spreading itself to new soils , or multiplying its means and efforts on the old . Of the two richer ...
Page xii
... of every country in the world bear to the laws really determining the vary- ing powers of communities to accumulate capital . But the theoretical unsoundness of these doctrines , い glaring as it must be to all who are xii PREFACE .
... of every country in the world bear to the laws really determining the vary- ing powers of communities to accumulate capital . But the theoretical unsoundness of these doctrines , い glaring as it must be to all who are xii PREFACE .
Page xiii
... accumulation - and then , by an er- roneous inference from a fact itself false , a corres- ponding incapacity in mankind to provide resources for increasing numbers - these points having been first insisted on with a dogmatical air of ...
... accumulation - and then , by an er- roneous inference from a fact itself false , a corres- ponding incapacity in mankind to provide resources for increasing numbers - these points having been first insisted on with a dogmatical air of ...
Page xvi
... accumulation will sufficiently shew the soundness , ) that high profits , with a great pro- ductive power , and a rapid rate of accumulation , are , in the history of mankind , an exception and not the rule . Again , looking at the rate ...
... accumulation will sufficiently shew the soundness , ) that high profits , with a great pro- ductive power , and a rapid rate of accumulation , are , in the history of mankind , an exception and not the rule . Again , looking at the rate ...
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... accumulated stock . They have been traced , first , in those rude tribes or nations among whom the savage may be ... accumulations of many generations , as well as by their own ; and exercising by the aid of these a command- ing and ...
... accumulated stock . They have been traced , first , in those rude tribes or nations among whom the savage may be ... accumulations of many generations , as well as by their own ; and exercising by the aid of these a command- ing and ...
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