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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... reference to Nationality , Residence and Property 365 REVIEWS : - Adams , Prof. H. C .. , The Science of Finance , an Investigation of Public ' Ex- penditures and Public Revenues . By Prof. C. F. Bastable 432 Agnelli , Arnaldo , Libero ...
... reference to Nationality , Residence and Property 365 REVIEWS : - Adams , Prof. H. C .. , The Science of Finance , an Investigation of Public ' Ex- penditures and Public Revenues . By Prof. C. F. Bastable 432 Agnelli , Arnaldo , Libero ...
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... reference to the fact that the above - mentioned Act already goes much further in this direction , since it actually specifies certain stocks as being trustworthy ; whilst the present scheme only asserts the safety of railway investment ...
... reference to the fact that the above - mentioned Act already goes much further in this direction , since it actually specifies certain stocks as being trustworthy ; whilst the present scheme only asserts the safety of railway investment ...
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... reference to the current rates of profit in business generally , by the competition of experts , in order that an as nearly as possible exact knowledge may be ob- tained of the comparative values of different investments . The prices ...
... reference to the current rates of profit in business generally , by the competition of experts , in order that an as nearly as possible exact knowledge may be ob- tained of the comparative values of different investments . The prices ...
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... reference to the general features of a theory of distribution and a social philosophy . Sin justice to Rodbertus readers of this book must in the first place disregard the title , and in the second place remember that the book elf ...
... reference to the general features of a theory of distribution and a social philosophy . Sin justice to Rodbertus readers of this book must in the first place disregard the title , and in the second place remember that the book elf ...
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... reference to the political , social , and economic conditions obtaining in the United Kingdom . For a long time past we have fixed by law some of the most important conditions of employment . How many hours in the day an employer shall ...
... reference to the political , social , and economic conditions obtaining in the United Kingdom . For a long time past we have fixed by law some of the most important conditions of employment . How many hours in the day an employer shall ...
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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