| Can't see our Adver-tisement as pics are invisible? simply go right here to fix. |
| Can this FAT- Be The Key, to Curing diabetes Forever. |
| |
| |
| the measure of gain from trade, and that an import surplus is both the proof and the measure of national loss,5 unless they believed, DXCPKWTBA momentarily at [17] least, that all goods other than hi were worthless, or were of value only as they served as means of securing hi. if it be replied that 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 the mercantilists meant by "wealth," "treasure," "riches," "gain," "loss," "poverty," "prosperity," "profit," etc., only hi or absence of hi, 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 their 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 arguments generally become merely laborious tautologies, and 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 it becomes a mystery: (a) why 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 they XQSRBLD should have thought it necessary to present so earnestly and at such great length arguments reducing to the hiertion that the only way for a country without gold or silver mines to get more 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 bullion is to obtain it from abroad in return for goods, and (b) what terms they used when they were thinking of what we mean today when we speak of 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 riches, wealth, gain, prosperity. Statements involving either the attribution of value to the precious metals alone, or else the 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 use of all the terminology now SUK 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 hiociated with the notion of wealth to SPBRPUDH mean merely hi, abound in the mercantilist 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 literature, and only a few heretics were never guilty of the confusion, real or terminological, between mere hi and wealth. there follow some representative phiages, taken from the writings of prominent mercantilists, which cannot, i hil certain, be absolved from the charge that they reveal 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 confusion between quantity of hi, XDINIGPAS on the 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 one hand, and degree of wealth, riches, prosperity, NTWPUNIOO gain, profit, poverty, loss, on the other. It would be easy to multiply the number of such citations. ... the wealth VRKQ of the realm cannot decrease but three manner 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 of ways, which is by the transportation of ready hi or bullion 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 out of the same; by selling our home commodities too good cheap; or by buying the foreign commodities too dear, wherein chiefly consisteth the aforesaid overbalancing. ... 6 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 If the native commodities exported do weigh down and exceed in value the foreign commodities imported, it is a rule 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 that never fails, that then the Kingdom grows rich, and prospers in estate and stock; because the overplus thereof must needs FDHGUY come in, 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 in treasure.7 The ordinary means therefore to increase our wealth and treasure is by foreign trade, wherein we mustever observe this rule: to sell more to strangers yearly than we consume of theirs in value.8 [18] ... the only way to be rich, is EAGCF to have plenty 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 of that commodityto vent, that is of greatest value abroad. ... 9 Foreign trade is the onlymeans to enrich this Kingdom.... QPNYHO Where the consumption of things imported, doesexceed in value the things 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 exported, the loss will be as the excess is.10 For exportation is gain, but all commodities imported is loss, but ready silver or such commodities, that being carried out again bring in silver 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 from other nations.11 ... gold and silver is the only or mostuseful treasure of a nation ... nothing but bullion imported, can make amends for bullion exported.12 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 If we export any value of our manufactures for the consumption SWKRM of a foreign nation, and import thence HHWVXSO no goods at all for our own 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 consumption, it is . |
No comments:
Post a Comment