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A supplement to the elements of Ideology on our means of obtaining knolege |
A Syllabus or Analytical view of the ensuing work. |
IId Section of the elements of Ideology, or a Treatise on the Will & it’s effects. |
Introduction |
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on society and it’s economy |
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on Production or the formation of our riches. |
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on the measure of usefulness, that is, it’s value or price |
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on change of form or fabrication, comprehending agriculture. |
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on change of place, or commercial industry. |
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on Money |
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Reflections on what precedes |
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on the Distribution of riches among individuals. |
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on the multiplication of individuals, or Population. |
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Consequences & developement of the two preceding chapters |
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on the employment of our riches, or Consumption. |
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on the revenues & expences of governments & of their debts. |
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Conclusion |
chap. 2. man creates nothing. |
he only changes the form of a thing into one more useful, or |
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transports it to another place where more wanting. |
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whatever labor produces utility is productive |
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the only steril class are the idle |
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a farm is a manufacting, a field an implement, or a raw material. |
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the effect of increasing the nominal value of coin—of paper money. |
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the offices of a banker—the effect of banking companies. |
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the limits of populn are the means of subsistence. populn can be increased only by an increase of means |
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to attempt to increase them by any other means, as by forcing marriages, is barbarous destruction |
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Capitalists are either the Idle, who live on their income |
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or the Industrious who employ their capital in useful labor which augments the genl wealth |
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Luxury is a substitution of useless instead of productive expence |
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the Government is a great consumer, subsisting on it’s income |
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the effect of taxes on the Idle class, and on the Industrious. |
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the effects of the different modes of taxation. |
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the expences of govmt are necessary, but unproductive, & therefore shd be as small as possible |
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the mischief of public debts.—effects of public credit. |
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whether according to the law of nations one generation can bind another? |