The Economic Journal: The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Economic Society, Volume 9Macmillan, 1899 - Economics Contains papers that appeal to a broad and global readership in all fields of economics. |
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... position . A body possessing an unlim- ted power of dealing in stocks and shares must eventually include amongst its members some in whom the predatory instinct suppermost , for where the carrion is thither will the vultures flock . It ...
... position . A body possessing an unlim- ted power of dealing in stocks and shares must eventually include amongst its members some in whom the predatory instinct suppermost , for where the carrion is thither will the vultures flock . It ...
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... position to forecast the ultimate results ; because we can always carry the mind back to the history of similar cases that have run their full course . But as regards municipal loans , we have not yet had sufficient experience of the ...
... position to forecast the ultimate results ; because we can always carry the mind back to the history of similar cases that have run their full course . But as regards municipal loans , we have not yet had sufficient experience of the ...
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... position from that of ordinary trustees . The latter are placed under certain limitations by the Trust Investment Act ; an Act which assumes that the trustee's personal security is not to be relied upon , and accordingly points out the ...
... position from that of ordinary trustees . The latter are placed under certain limitations by the Trust Investment Act ; an Act which assumes that the trustee's personal security is not to be relied upon , and accordingly points out the ...
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... position to know and to be well able to judge the prospects of profit ; and , to those who are not in a position to watch the movements closely , there can be no question of superiority as investments once the prices are so fixed ...
... position to know and to be well able to judge the prospects of profit ; and , to those who are not in a position to watch the movements closely , there can be no question of superiority as investments once the prices are so fixed ...
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... position to incur further burdens and will consequently obtain a correspondingly greater loan on given terms . Let us now deduct the net liabilities from both systems . We have then to consider the effect on national credit of the ...
... position to incur further burdens and will consequently obtain a correspondingly greater loan on given terms . Let us now deduct the net liabilities from both systems . We have then to consider the effect on national credit of the ...
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Page 443 - Objects (a) To provide a means of communication between women's organizations in all countries. (b) To provide opportunities for women to meet together from all parts of the world to confer upon questions relating to the welfare of the commonwealth and the family.
Page 579 - Where any person -wilfully and maliciously breaks a contract of service or of hiring, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequences of his so doing, either alone or in combination with others, will be to endanger human life, or cause serious bodily injury, or to expose valuable property whether real or personal to destruction or serious injury...
Page 71 - Trades Unions work well as centres of resistance against the encroachments of capital. They fail partially from an injudicious use of their power. They fail generally from limiting themselves to a guerilla war against the effects of the existing system, instead of simultaneously trying to change it, instead of using their organized forces as a lever for the final emancipation of the working class, that is to say, the 'ultimate abolition of the wages system.
Page 224 - ... co-operation for common objects, precludes any uniform principle for the discharge of local duties, compels the general government to take things upon itself which would be best left to local authorities if there were any whose authority extended to the entire metropolis ; and answers no purpose but to keep up the fantastical trappings of that union of modern jobbing and antiquated foppery, the Corporation of the City of London.
Page 71 - They are not derived from land as such or from capital as such, but land and capital enable their owners to get their respective shares out of the surplus value extracted by the employing capitalist from the labourer.
Page 431 - We are the only animal species in which the female depends on the male for food, the only animal species in which the sex relation is also an economic relation.
Page 501 - ... which he himself bears a part, but on things obtained by a double exchange, a sale followed by a purchase — the question of Value is fundamental Almost every speculation respecting the economical interests of a society 266 •bus constituted, implies some theory of Value : the smallest error on that subject infects with corresponding error all our other conclusions; and anything vague or misty in our conception of it, creates confusion and uncertainty iti everything else.
Page 577 - The last report of the Labour Association for promoting co-operative production, based on the co-partnership of the workers...
Page 380 - Ground-rents, so far as they exceed the ordinary rent of land, are altogether owing to the good government of the sovereign, which, by protecting the industry either of the whole people, or of the inhabitants of some particular place, enables them to pay so much more than its real value for the ground which they build their houses upon...
Page 302 - Later, when hard pressed by Professor Graziani, he seeks to maintain his position by assuming that " the change of price is small," "by taking A/ sufficiently small" (Economic Journal, viii, p. 235). But is it fair to assume that a small change of price is " more general