Wealth-creationCassell, Petter, Galpin & Company, 1882 - 308 pages |
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... equal indispensability , and that all dis- quisitions as to their comparative importance in the production of wealth are idle and aimless , since their relative potency is indefinable . CHAPTER II . Classification of Obstacles and Aids ...
... equal indispensability , and that all dis- quisitions as to their comparative importance in the production of wealth are idle and aimless , since their relative potency is indefinable . CHAPTER II . Classification of Obstacles and Aids ...
Page 61
... equal footing . But the former is absorbed waste- fully , and totally consumed ; the latter mostly becomes reproductive capital . In both cases the money finally goes to pay the wages of labour , but in the first case , the golden ...
... equal footing . But the former is absorbed waste- fully , and totally consumed ; the latter mostly becomes reproductive capital . In both cases the money finally goes to pay the wages of labour , but in the first case , the golden ...
Page 71
... equal in efficacy that neither of them can claim any superiority over the rest . Land and labour without capital are about as helpless as capital and land without labour . Since , then , the production of wealth is impossible without a ...
... equal in efficacy that neither of them can claim any superiority over the rest . Land and labour without capital are about as helpless as capital and land without labour . Since , then , the production of wealth is impossible without a ...
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... equal im- portance of all the three elements of production , it matters not in the least in whom , whether in indi- viduals , or in corporations , or in the state itself , the possession of the existing land and capital may be vested ...
... equal im- portance of all the three elements of production , it matters not in the least in whom , whether in indi- viduals , or in corporations , or in the state itself , the possession of the existing land and capital may be vested ...
Page 73
... equal degree . We have now , we think , adduced valid reasons for classing land - owners , capitalists , and labour- sellers as joint and co - equal producers of wealth . We now come to the classes who distribute the wealth thus ...
... equal degree . We have now , we think , adduced valid reasons for classing land - owners , capitalists , and labour- sellers as joint and co - equal producers of wealth . We now come to the classes who distribute the wealth thus ...
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