Jacob Vanderlint on Money Answers All Things. 1734Lord Baltimore Press, 1914 - 164 sider |
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Annum answer Balance of Trade Bills of Mortality Bullion Business Cash cause Cent certainly Charge cheap cheaper circulating amongst Cloaths Coin Commodities consequently considerable Consumers Consumption Cultivation Decay of Trade doth double Dugald Stewart effect employ Employment empty Houses enable England Essay Estates Estimate Expence Exportation Farmers Favour flourish foreign full and sufficient Gentlemen Gold and Silver half happy hath hence Increase inhance Kingdom less lessen London lower Mankind Manu Manufactures maritime Marriage middling Family Millions Money amongst Nation Nature Nature of Things neces necessarily needful notwithstanding Plenty Poor present Price of Necessaries Prices of Things Produce Profits Prohibitions Proposal publick purchase Quantity raise Ranks Rates of Labour reduce Rents of Lands shew shewn Shillings Sir William Pettis Spain Specie square Miles subsist sufficient Execution sumers Sums suppose Taxes thereby Tillage Timber Tradesmen Value Vanderlint vast vastly Wages waste Land whence Wherefore whilst Wool
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Side 48 - But no inconvenience can arise by an unrestrained trade, but very great advantage; since if the cash of the nation be decreased by it, which prohibitions are designed to prevent, those nations that get the cash will certainly find every thing advance in price, as the cash increases among them.
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Side 98 - From hence, therefore, it must appear, that it is impossible anybody should be poorer, for using any foreign goods at cheaper rates than we can raise them ourselves, after we have done all we possibly can to raise such goods as cheap as we import them, and find we cannot do it ; nay, this very circumstance makes all such goods come under the character of the peculiaritiu of those countries which are able to raise any such goods cheaper than we can do, for they will necessarily operate as such.
Side 117 - But, besides this Difficulty of wanting Hands sufficient to execute this Proposal effectually, 'tis objected, that the working People will not now work above 3 or 4 Days in a Week, but get drunk the other 2 or 3 Days; and that this would be worse, if Necessaries were rendered so cheap as I am contending for. In answer to which I must observe, that Necessaries can't be rendered so cheap, as I am aiming at, without employing more of the labouring Peoples Time and Labour, to raise such a Plenty of them...
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Side 23 - Things chiefly of the Price of Labour; whenever the Price of Necessaries is such, that the labouring Man's Wages will not, suitably to his low Rank and Station, as a labouring Man, support such a Family, as is often the Lot of many of them to have...