Capital and Interest —— A Critical History of Economical Theory

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ISBN: 9781330456590 出版年：2016 页码：475 Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk Forgotten Books

This, however, immediately suggests the question why a public which, as a rule, is not willing to pay more than it can help for anything, should pay prices such as allow of this profit. The manufacturer's answer probably would be, that it would not be worth his while to put forth his energies in manufacturing for less than this amount of profit, as he could, with at least equal safety and without personal exertion, obtain, say £1000 by lending his capital to any ordinary productive undertaking.