Die Lehren des Marxismus im Lichte der russischen Revolution

Le problème de la marine marchande

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-156426

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Author:: Bruckus, B. D. http://d-nb.info/gnd/101540051

Title:: Die Lehren des Marxismus im Lichte der russischen Revolution

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Sack

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: 90 Seiten

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: V. Der Einheitsplan der sozialistischen Wirtschaft

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144 Benjamin Franklin [1769 the manufacturer. But the advantage of manufac- tures is, that under their shape provisions may be more easily carried to a foreign market; and, by their means, our traders may more easily cheat strang- ers.” Few, where it is not made, are judges of the value of lace. The importer may demand forty, and perhaps get thirty, shillings for that which cost him but twenty. 12. Finally, there seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neigh- bours. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agricul- ture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry. ! Franklin does not, probably, intend to be literally understood as recommending a system of defrauding foreigners; the benefit he pro- poses from manufactures does not, by any means, amount to this. Nobody considers it cheating to obtain from a domestic purchaser more for a thing than it costs the vender to make it. The most scrupulous mercantile morality does not proscribe profits. The au- thor has elsewhere stated, that gain is the great motive of commerce. He can only mean what he has elsewhere stated, that the nation ex- porting manufactures has the means of carrying on a more profitable foreign trade, which it may do as long as there are few competitors in effecting sales. But the other reason mentioned immediately before, in favor of exporting manufactures, namely, that it gives an opportu- nity of exporting the products of more labor, is of much greater importance than the chance of making extraordinary profits; a chance which has been very much diminished by the diffusion of the manufactur- ing arts, since this article was written.—W. PHILLIPS.

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