Das Baugewerbe in der Volks-, Berufs- und Betriebszählung von 1925

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Identifikator:: 1847422136

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-250625

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Das Baugewerbe in der Volks-, Berufs- und Betriebszählung von 1925

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Deutscher Baugewerksbund (N. Bernhard)

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 183 Seiten; graphische Darstellungen

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: II. Umfang und betriebliche Struktur des Baugewerbes und der Baunebengewerbe.

Collection:: Economics Books

i$ i } i i 20 NATURE OF CAPITAL. AND INCOME [Crar. II units of wealth affected by those services, as in the case of so-called piecework. The services of a miner are meas- ured by reference to the quantity of coal mined; the serv- ices of a planter, by the number of acres planted; and of a spinning machine, by the number of yards spun. Services, like wealth, are subject to exchange and, in consequence, have prices. The quantity of any service multiplied by its price gives its value. When reduced to value in a common standard, all varieties of services become commensurable with each other and with wealth. The opposite of a service is a disservice, which is an un- desirable change effected (or a desirable change prevented) by means of wealth. For instance, a locomotive renders disservices by consuming coal; a farm, by requiring fer- tilizers and labor; a factory, by requiring costs of work- ing. Disservices, like services, are measured in quantity by special units and made commensurable in value by reduction to a common standard. § 3 Having seen what is meant by services of wealth, we next ask what is meant by the right to those services. “Right” is a term of jurisprudence, and brings economies into con- tact with the whole subject of legal and custom-sanctioned relations; but, for our present purpose, it is not necessary to go far in this direction. The right of a person to the uses of an article of wealth may be defined as his liberty, under the sanction of law and society, to enjoy the services of that article. Lawyers distinguish between property rights and per- sonal rights; but, to the economist, all rights are proprie- tary. The distinction between property and personal rights exists only so long as we restrict the meaning of wealth to the narrower of its two definitions, that is, only so long as we exclude free human beings. Here we have an instance in which logical convenience is served by adopting

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