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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... principle that the law should not require one authority to make to another trumpery payments which merely encumber and confuse the accounts without making any perceptible difference to the rates . The spreading of half the salaries of ...
... principle that the law should not require one authority to make to another trumpery payments which merely encumber and confuse the accounts without making any perceptible difference to the rates . The spreading of half the salaries of ...
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... principle of distribution will have to be found for it . Lord Balfour of Burleigh has pro- pounded with the approval of some of his colleagues on the Local Taxation Commission an elaborate and well devised plan for the distribution of ...
... principle of distribution will have to be found for it . Lord Balfour of Burleigh has pro- pounded with the approval of some of his colleagues on the Local Taxation Commission an elaborate and well devised plan for the distribution of ...
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... principle . Stubbornly did they resist the enticement of operators , and firmly but courteously rejected the overtures o the President . Patiently , and yet in hunger , they asked for arbitration , and , when troops encamped in the ...
... principle . Stubbornly did they resist the enticement of operators , and firmly but courteously rejected the overtures o the President . Patiently , and yet in hunger , they asked for arbitration , and , when troops encamped in the ...
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... principle of unionism . Whatever be the final effect of this conflict , the public has had an exhibition of resolute courage and patient endurance which ought to convince all of these men's capacity for intellectual and moral progress ...
... principle of unionism . Whatever be the final effect of this conflict , the public has had an exhibition of resolute courage and patient endurance which ought to convince all of these men's capacity for intellectual and moral progress ...
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... principle , affecting at different points almost the whole field of national industry : the " unearned incre- ment " for instance being only another form of it . But what we can do in a few words is to point out where Mr. Millin is ...
... principle , affecting at different points almost the whole field of national industry : the " unearned incre- ment " for instance being only another form of it . But what we can do in a few words is to point out where Mr. Millin is ...
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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.
Page 5 - Society," and for the purposes aforesaid, and by the name aforesaid, shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, with full power and authority to alter, vary, break, and renew the same at their discretion, and by the same name to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto...