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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... fact most of them are so absurd that if they were generally understood they could not long be tolerated , even by that patient mother of abuses , the British Parliament . I propose therefore to state what they are , and explain their ...
... fact most of them are so absurd that if they were generally understood they could not long be tolerated , even by that patient mother of abuses , the British Parliament . I propose therefore to state what they are , and explain their ...
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... fact , continued to the close of the year , when reserves stood at $ 223,000,000 . With the beginning of the new year a rapid return movement began , and on January 24th the reserve had advanced to $ 254,000,000 . The prolongation of ...
... fact , continued to the close of the year , when reserves stood at $ 223,000,000 . With the beginning of the new year a rapid return movement began , and on January 24th the reserve had advanced to $ 254,000,000 . The prolongation of ...
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... fact those who were responsible sailed altogether too near the wind ; no balancing of forces could have saved the situation had there been poor harvests of cotton and wheat . A decided absence of conservatism is evident , due in large ...
... fact those who were responsible sailed altogether too near the wind ; no balancing of forces could have saved the situation had there been poor harvests of cotton and wheat . A decided absence of conservatism is evident , due in large ...
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... fact that our time and capacities are limited . Consequently just as I's desire for an nth increment of tea varies with the quantity of tea , coffee , and sugar that he has , so also , though , of course , to a much smaller degree , it ...
... fact that our time and capacities are limited . Consequently just as I's desire for an nth increment of tea varies with the quantity of tea , coffee , and sugar that he has , so also , though , of course , to a much smaller degree , it ...
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... fact the condition " ceteris paribus " upon which Professor Marshall's whole argument explicitly depends , is , in this illustra- tion , violated . What Professor Patten has shown is that when I can eat a great many other things I am ...
... fact the condition " ceteris paribus " upon which Professor Marshall's whole argument explicitly depends , is , in this illustra- tion , violated . What Professor Patten has shown is that when I can eat a great many other things I am ...
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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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