 | James Wade - 1818 - 396 pages
...famine." He goes on laying down principles and illustrating them, and concludes, p. 110, by saying, "Like all other contracts, WAGES SHOULD BE LEFT TO...CONTROLLED BY THE INTERFERENCE OF THE LEGISLATURE." The reasonings of such a man as this are of infinitely more importance, and are deserving of infinitely... | |
 | David Ricardo - Economics - 1821 - 560 pages
...are regulated, and by which the happiness of far the greatest part" of every community is governed. Like all other contracts, wages should be left to...controlled by the interference of the legislature. The clear and direct tendency of the poor laws, is in direct opposition to these obvious principles... | |
 | J. C. Ross - Economics - 1827 - 486 pages
...laws which we have now stated, the happiness of by far the greatest part of every community depends Like all other contracts, wages should be left to...controlled by the interference of the legislature, whether directly or indirectly exercised. In many countries, the condition of the great body of the... | |
 | David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch - Economics - 1886 - 688 pages
...are regulated, and by which the happiness of far the greatest part of every community is , governed. Like all other contracts, wages should be left to...controlled by the interference of the legislature. The clear and direct tendency of the poor laws is in direct opposition to these obvious principles... | |
 | Lester Frank Ward - Civilization - 1892 - 406 pages
...increase or diminution." — DAVID R1CARDO : Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, p. ~o. " Like other contracts, wages should be left to the fair...controlled by the interference of the legislature." — DAVID RICARDO: Ibid., p. 82. 2 The now so celebrated Malthusian law or doctrine, as stated in Chap.... | |
 | New Zealand. Parliament, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives - New Zealand - 1892 - 676 pages
...it." Then, again, in regard to labour, he says, "Like all other contracts, wages should bo left to tho fair and free competition of the market, and should...controlled by the interference of the Legislature." Have we been following that out? Now, 'this puts me in mind of a story that in a certain State in America,... | |
 | David Ricardo - Economics - 1895 - 166 pages
...are regulated, and by which the happiness of far the greatest part of every community is governed. Like all other contracts, wages should be left to...controlled by the interference of the « legislature. The clear and direct tendency of the poor laws, is in direct opposition to these obvious principles... | |
 | Stephen Worms - Distribution (Economic theory) - 1901 - 556 pages
...edler Entrüstung als „entehrend" für die Arbeiter erklärte. Ricardo erklärt ferner ausdrücklich: „like all other contracts wages should be left to...should never be controlled by the interference of legislature3)." Die beiderseitig freie Concurrenz auf dem Arbeitsgebiete, die den Vertretern des Socialismus... | |
 | Clarence Edwin Ayres - Economics - 1918 - 74 pages
...an equally direct consequence of the original postulate of laissez faire. If it is established that "wages should be left to the fair and free competition...controlled by the interference of the legislature," then it follows that "the clear and direct tendency of the poor laws is in direct opposition to these... | |
 | University of Chicago - Philosophy - 1918 - 84 pages
...an equally direct consequence of the original postulate of laissez faire. If it is established that "wages should be left to the fair and free competition...controlled by the interference of the legislature," then it follows that "the clear and direct tendency of the poor laws is in direct opposition to these... | |
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Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of the market, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature. 
