The Economic Journal: The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Economic Society, Volume 13Macmillan, 1903 - Economics Contains papers that appeal to a broad and global readership in all fields of economics. |
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... considerable . In the aggregate it amounted to £ 706,870 in 1899-1900 . If we take the urban districts on the one hand , and therural districts on the other in the aggregate , we find that the fact that they are in partnership in regard ...
... considerable . In the aggregate it amounted to £ 706,870 in 1899-1900 . If we take the urban districts on the one hand , and therural districts on the other in the aggregate , we find that the fact that they are in partnership in regard ...
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... considerable fine or deduction . To make the fine vary as it does now with the cost of police is absurd , since the more inadequate the police force the less will the fine be . A borough which boldly maintained less than half the police ...
... considerable fine or deduction . To make the fine vary as it does now with the cost of police is absurd , since the more inadequate the police force the less will the fine be . A borough which boldly maintained less than half the police ...
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... considerable . We need no further explanation why Wiltshire is at the top and Glamorgan at the bottom . Of this financial relation it may be said very shortly that it was obviously indefensible in 1881 , and has become less and less ...
... considerable . We need no further explanation why Wiltshire is at the top and Glamorgan at the bottom . Of this financial relation it may be said very shortly that it was obviously indefensible in 1881 , and has become less and less ...
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... considerably . This was chiefly felt in the consumption of meats and canned goods . It was the instinctive action on the part of the people to prepare themselves for the fight confronting them . 1 Employers . On May 12th , 1902 , not ...
... considerably . This was chiefly felt in the consumption of meats and canned goods . It was the instinctive action on the part of the people to prepare themselves for the fight confronting them . 1 Employers . On May 12th , 1902 , not ...
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... considerable activity in the United States lately , and the industrial war in the coal - fields offered them an occasion they at once set to work to improve . Speakers and literature were sent to these cities , villages , and towns ...
... considerable activity in the United States lately , and the industrial war in the coal - fields offered them an occasion they at once set to work to improve . Speakers and literature were sent to these cities , villages , and towns ...
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Page 489 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as Little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Page 537 - The liberal reward of labour, as it encourages the propagation, so it increases the industry of the common people. The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives.
Page 4 - Now KNOW YE, that We, being desirous of encouraging a design so laudable and salutary, of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, have willed, granted, and declared: And do by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, will, grant, and declare, that the said...
Page 320 - The Essential Principles of the Wealth of Nations illustrated, in Opposition to some False Doctrines of Dr. Adam Smith and Others.
Page 551 - I believe, doubt of this, yet during this period five years have seldom passed away in which some book or pamphlet has not been published, written too with such abilities as to gain some authority with the public, and pretending to demonstrate that the wealth of the nation was fast declining, that the country was depopulated, agriculture neglected, manufactures decaying, and trade undone.
Page 487 - He proposed to alter that tradition " by asking the people of this country to reverse, to annul, and delete altogether from their maxims of public conduct the doctrine that you must never put on taxation except for revenue purposes.
Page 268 - The first alternative, it would seem, presents difficulties, and accordingly, " if you are to give a preference to the Colonies . . . you must put a tax on food.
Page 151 - ... the Johns Hopkins Press invites subscriptions to a similar reprint of four important economic tracts of the seventeenth century to be issued consecutively under the editorial direction of JH Hollander, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Economy in the Johns Hopkins University.
Page 7 - ... of the Society, and appoint and dismiss at their pleasure all salaried and other officers, attendants, and servants as they may think fit, and may do all such things as shall appear to them necessary or expedient for giving effect to the objects of the Society.
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