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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... Probably the legislature never thought of footpaths , but the courts have held that it must have meant to include them . It would appear easy enough to get rid of the whole system by simply exempting the urban districts from being rated ...
... Probably the legislature never thought of footpaths , but the courts have held that it must have meant to include them . It would appear easy enough to get rid of the whole system by simply exempting the urban districts from being rated ...
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... probably would be . The utility of the present arrangement appears to be absolutely nil . As the payment to the boroughs is contingent on the approval of the police force by the Home Secretary , it gives the central bureaucracy a ...
... probably would be . The utility of the present arrangement appears to be absolutely nil . As the payment to the boroughs is contingent on the approval of the police force by the Home Secretary , it gives the central bureaucracy a ...
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... probably true to say that these payments from the county boroughs to the unions do not make a penny in the £ of difference in any part of Lancashire . In places where the union is conterminous with the county borough they make no ...
... probably true to say that these payments from the county boroughs to the unions do not make a penny in the £ of difference in any part of Lancashire . In places where the union is conterminous with the county borough they make no ...
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... probably go much further but for the provision of the national banking law against branch banking . On account of this obstacle , there has been a noticeable movement towards greater unity of control and management through the purchase ...
... probably go much further but for the provision of the national banking law against branch banking . On account of this obstacle , there has been a noticeable movement towards greater unity of control and management through the purchase ...
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... probably representing the notes which had been received in the course of the day's business . The notes form a permanent part of the circulating medium in every day use . If they were absent altogether there would un- questionably be a ...
... probably representing the notes which had been received in the course of the day's business . The notes form a permanent part of the circulating medium in every day use . If they were absent altogether there would un- questionably be a ...
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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...