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amount artificial assets Average land values average wealth become capitalized income census cheapened circulation commercial values common competitive cost costless credit finance credit system currency depreciation dollars dominion economic fundamentals efficiencies effortless incomes environment estimate expedients expenditure facilities F feudal five per cent ginal hence hundred ical idle income improvement values industrial potential insolvency interest rate JANDUS labor labor powers lative line of average liquidation marginal value ment metal basis money debts money function money unit money volume money-base money-means money-scope monopoly ninety-three per cent nomic Ohm's Law panic parasitically advantaged perpetual physical values political science predatory private capitalism Private Finance productive sacrifice propertied classes renting privilege resource routine producer Second Estate self-liquidation social solvent functions standard supersolvent theories tically tion unit of productive unpropertied utility valuation value of gold value of land values of commerce vate vency voracity of capitalism wages
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Page 122 - For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Page 112 - There shall be prepared under the direction and supervision of the commissioners of taxes and assessments of the city of New York...
Page 10 - The very idea of distributive justice, or of any proportionality between success and merit, or between success and exertion, is in the present state of society so manifestly chimerical as to be relegated to the regions of romance.
Page 105 - ... was undertaken. It is in marked contrast with the report for the previous year when, by the operation of an act of Parliament, the hours of labor of industries employing women, children, and young persons were reduced, making a decrease of above 1,000,000 hours weekly in the textile industry alone. Report on Wages, Earnings, and Conditions of Employment of Agricultural Laborers in the United Kingdom.
Page 105 - ... chapter of his first book, after explaining the distinction between the real and nominal price of commodities, has the following passage : ' Labour, therefore, it appears evidently, is the only universal as well as the only accurate measure of value, or the only standard by which we can compare the values of different commodities at all times and all places.
Page 49 - THE SOLVENCY OF VALUES THE KEY TO THE SOCIALIZATION OF ECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS...
Page i - The discovery of the law of solvent functions and the formulation of the economic equation, made possible the brief analysis of the economic situation attempted in these pages.
Page 112 - Park are more valuable than the assessed value of all the real estate in the State of Missouri.
Page 124 - THE INCOME OF PRIVATE FINANCE AND THE OUTGO OF THE UNPROPERTIED PRODUCER THE census for 1900 estimates the national wealth at $88,500,000,000.