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... whole , or upon the mass of its people . To learn what those laws are , is the business of the student of social science ; to govern a nation according to them is the business of the statesman , and is the art of national economy ...
... whole , or upon the mass of its people . To learn what those laws are , is the business of the student of social science ; to govern a nation according to them is the business of the statesman , and is the art of national economy ...
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... whole people . § 6. National economy is much older than social science . The former came into existence with the first nation , the latter began to be studied about the time of the discovery of America , and first gained a place as a ...
... whole people . § 6. National economy is much older than social science . The former came into existence with the first nation , the latter began to be studied about the time of the discovery of America , and first gained a place as a ...
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... whole question as if there were no such bodies . Smith writes as if the world were all under one government , with no boundary lines to restrain the movement of labor and capital , —no inequalities of national civilization and ...
... whole question as if there were no such bodies . Smith writes as if the world were all under one government , with no boundary lines to restrain the movement of labor and capital , —no inequalities of national civilization and ...
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... separation of the science from the art , called in question the whole system of the distribution of the products of labor and capital , as an THE CRITICAL STAGE . - CAIRNES . - AMERICANS . 24 SOCIAL SCIENCE AND NATIONAL ECONOMY .
... separation of the science from the art , called in question the whole system of the distribution of the products of labor and capital , as an THE CRITICAL STAGE . - CAIRNES . - AMERICANS . 24 SOCIAL SCIENCE AND NATIONAL ECONOMY .
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... whole , that to give up a part involves the surrender of all . If we were to regard these criticisms as a whole , we should find nothing left of the doctrine of the school , except the single airy notion , that a trade that benefits ...
... whole , that to give up a part involves the surrender of all . If we were to regard these criticisms as a whole , we should find nothing left of the doctrine of the school , except the single airy notion , that a trade that benefits ...
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Page 38 - And the eye cannot say to the hand, ' I have no need of thee ' ; nor again the head to the feet,
Page 133 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 198 - The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Page 76 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Page 198 - Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot ; taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste ; taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion ; taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth...
Page 73 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 198 - Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home. Taxes on the raw material ; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man.
Page 328 - IT IS TRUE, I CANNOT PREVENT THE INTRODUCTION OF THE FLOWING POISON; GAIN-SEEKING AND CORRUPT MEN WILL, FOR PROFIT AND SENSUALITY, DEFEAT MY WISHES ; BUT NOTHING WILL INDUCE ME TO DERIVE A REVENUE FROM THE VICE AND MISERY OF MY PEOPLE.
Page 37 - Whether it be in the development of the Earth, in the development of Life upon its surface, in the development of Society, of Government, of Manufactures, of Commerce, of Language, Literature, Science, Art, this same evolution of the simple into the complex, through successive differentiations, holds throughout.
Page 262 - But it cannot be expected that individuals should, at their own risk, or rather to their certain loss, introduce a new manufacture, and bear the burden of carrying it on, until the producers have been educated up to the level of those with whom the processes are traditional.