An Introduction to the theory of statistics

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Identifikator:: 1751730271

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-127610

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Author:: Yule, George Udny http://d-nb.info/gnd/12910504X

Title:: An Introduction to the theory of statistics

Edition:: 8. ed. rev

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Griffin

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: XV, 422 S; Ill., Diagr

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part I. The theory of atributes

Collection:: Economics Books

1782 Essays = Gaul, Germany, and Britain were in the time of the Romans, inhabited by people little richer than our savages, and consider the wealth they at present pos- sess, in numerous well-built cities, improved farms, rich movables, magazines stocked with valuable manufactures, to say nothing of plate, jewels, and coined money; and all this, notwithstanding their bad, wasteful, plundering governments, and their mad, destructive wars; and yet luxury and extrav- agant living have never suffered much restraint in those countries. Then consider the great proportion of industrious frugal farmers inhabiting the interior parts of these American States, and of whom the body of our nation consists: and judge whether it is possible that the luxury of our seaports can be suffi- cient to ruin such a country. If the importation of foreign luxuries could ruin a people, we should prob- ably have been ruined long ago; for the British nation claimed a right, and practised it, of import- ing among us, not only the superfluities of their own production, but those of every nation under heaven; we bought and consumed them, and yet we flour- ished and grew rich. At present, our independent governments may do what we could not then do, discourage by heavy duties, or prevent by heavy prohibitions, such importations, and thereby grow richer; if, indeed, which may admit of dispute, the desire of adorning ourselves with fine clothes, pos- sessing fine furniture, with elegant houses, etc., is not, by strongly inciting to labor and industry, the occa- sion of producing a greater value than is consumed in the gratification of that desire. oo ZK

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