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Page 77
... government and new laws , check the emigration of capital . These feelings , which I should be sorry to see weakened , induce most men of property to be satisfied with a low rate of profits in their own country , rather than seek a more ...
... government and new laws , check the emigration of capital . These feelings , which I should be sorry to see weakened , induce most men of property to be satisfied with a low rate of profits in their own country , rather than seek a more ...
Page 87
... government ; and are always ultimately paid , either from the capital , or from the revenue of the country . We have already shown how the capital of a country is either fixed or circulating , according as it is of a more or of a less ...
... government ; and are always ultimately paid , either from the capital , or from the revenue of the country . We have already shown how the capital of a country is either fixed or circulating , according as it is of a more or of a less ...
Page 88
... government continue , with a constantly diminishing annual re- production , the resources of the people and the state will fall away with increasing rapidity , and distress and ruin will follow . Notwithstanding the immense expenditure ...
... government continue , with a constantly diminishing annual re- production , the resources of the people and the state will fall away with increasing rapidity , and distress and ruin will follow . Notwithstanding the immense expenditure ...
Page 106
... Government make necessary ; but if such a tax were devoted only to increase the fund paid to the church , it might in- deed on the whole increase the general mass of production , but it would diminish the portion of that mass allotted ...
... Government make necessary ; but if such a tax were devoted only to increase the fund paid to the church , it might in- deed on the whole increase the general mass of production , but it would diminish the portion of that mass allotted ...
Page 107
... government , as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities . 2. " The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain , and not arbitrary . 3. " Every tax ought to be levied at the time , or in the ...
... government , as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities . 2. " The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain , and not arbitrary . 3. " Every tax ought to be levied at the time , or in the ...
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abundance accumulation Adam Smith additional advantage agriculture alteration annual annum bank notes Bank of England bill Bosanquet bounty capital employed cause cent cloth Committee consequence consumer cultivation currency demand depreciation diminished dities effect employment equal exchangeable value Exchequer expenses exportation fall farmer favourable foreign gold bullion gold coin Government greater guineas Hamburgh importation income increase interest issues land landlord less loan machinery Malthus manufacturer millions modities natural price necessary obtained paid paper money payment portion Portugal pound sterling precious metals price of commodities price of corn price of gold principle profits of stock proportion purchase quantity of labour quarters raise the price rate of profits raw produce regulated relative value rent revenue Ricardo rise of wages seignorage sell sinking fund standard supply suppose taxation things tion trade value of gold value of money variations wages of labour wheat whilst whole