Wealth-creationCassell, Petter, Galpin & Company, 1882 - 308 pages |
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... direct proportion to the magnitude of the area and the number of people over which its operations extend . The greater the diversity of the climate and soil , as well as of the aptitudes and personal peculiarities of the populations ...
... direct proportion to the magnitude of the area and the number of people over which its operations extend . The greater the diversity of the climate and soil , as well as of the aptitudes and personal peculiarities of the populations ...
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... direct way do " facilities of inter - communication " also promote the creation of wealth - they make those productions useful , and therefore of value , which , being otherwise out of the reach of consumers , would be unused , and ...
... direct way do " facilities of inter - communication " also promote the creation of wealth - they make those productions useful , and therefore of value , which , being otherwise out of the reach of consumers , would be unused , and ...
Page 49
... direct influence over the welfare and destinies of man , some slight improvement is visible , but it is in- finitesimal as compared with the rapid progressive movement of the exact sciences . In these , every step is a step forward ...
... direct influence over the welfare and destinies of man , some slight improvement is visible , but it is in- finitesimal as compared with the rapid progressive movement of the exact sciences . In these , every step is a step forward ...
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... direct material benefits which the exact sciences confer on us for the purpose of in- directly promoting the moral and intellectual wel- fare of our race . The operation of scientific discovery on the creation of wealth corresponds very ...
... direct material benefits which the exact sciences confer on us for the purpose of in- directly promoting the moral and intellectual wel- fare of our race . The operation of scientific discovery on the creation of wealth corresponds very ...
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... direct bearing on the crea- tion of wealth are industry and frugality . It is these virtues ( which , duties at first , soon become habits ) that mostly convert labour - sellers into capitalists , and that contribute powerfully to the ...
... direct bearing on the crea- tion of wealth are industry and frugality . It is these virtues ( which , duties at first , soon become habits ) that mostly convert labour - sellers into capitalists , and that contribute powerfully to the ...
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40 per cent abundance adopted amount annual army AUGUSTUS MONGREDIEN average balance of trade barter become benefit capital and labour capitalists cheap civilisation cloth commodities competition cost Council created creation of wealth debts displacement distribution division of labour duction earnings effect England Europe European evil excess exist expenditure exports foreign former Free Trade fund-holder Galpin glut Government human exertions ignorance import duties improvement increased influence instance interest labour and capital labour-sellers land latter less library binding loss Ludgate Hill man's mankind means ment nations native industry native producers natural necessity objects obtained or produced paid persons population possible poverty present produced by human prohibitory proportion prosperity Protectionism Protectionist protective result revenue sumers supply supply and demand supposed Tamboff territorial army tion truth Vols wages war-system wars waste wealth-creation world's wealth X Y Z
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