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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... figures we require estimates of the in- comes of the working classes and the rest of the community . Such estimates are very difficult to make , and the figures given by such eminent statisticians as Sir Robert Giffen and Mr. Bowley are ...
... figures we require estimates of the in- comes of the working classes and the rest of the community . Such estimates are very difficult to make , and the figures given by such eminent statisticians as Sir Robert Giffen and Mr. Bowley are ...
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... figures quoted above tell us that roughly an income of £ 127 10s . pays a tax of 5.7 per cent . , whereas one of £ 427 10s . pays a tax of 8.5 per cent . , and indicates , therefore , that the English system is scarcely sufficiently ...
... figures quoted above tell us that roughly an income of £ 127 10s . pays a tax of 5.7 per cent . , whereas one of £ 427 10s . pays a tax of 8.5 per cent . , and indicates , therefore , that the English system is scarcely sufficiently ...
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... figures for the Imperial Public Burdens ( in millions . of £ ) are as follows : - 1842 1862 1882 Year . Working- classes . Higher and middle - classes . Total . 26.0 24.3 50.3 29.2 34.9 64.1 31.8 39.5 713 For the year 1882 he takes the ...
... figures for the Imperial Public Burdens ( in millions . of £ ) are as follows : - 1842 1862 1882 Year . Working- classes . Higher and middle - classes . Total . 26.0 24.3 50.3 29.2 34.9 64.1 31.8 39.5 713 For the year 1882 he takes the ...
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... figures above given are fairly correct , would seem to be that , if we except the principle of equal sacrifice and a moderate hypothesis as to the weight of a given burden , the process of decreasing the burdens of the working classes ...
... figures above given are fairly correct , would seem to be that , if we except the principle of equal sacrifice and a moderate hypothesis as to the weight of a given burden , the process of decreasing the burdens of the working classes ...
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... figures for the year 1895-96 : - Colony . Import duties . Taxation Other sources . £ £ New South Wales 1,825,240 740,872 Victoria 1,733,672 949,248 Queensland 1,290,795 276,188 South Australia 553,037 280,731 Western Australia 614,457 ...
... figures for the year 1895-96 : - Colony . Import duties . Taxation Other sources . £ £ New South Wales 1,825,240 740,872 Victoria 1,733,672 949,248 Queensland 1,290,795 276,188 South Australia 553,037 280,731 Western Australia 614,457 ...
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Page 451 - 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 587 - 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 73 - 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 73 - 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 226 - ... 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 263 - Textile factories the limits are from 6 am to 6 pm, or 7 am, to 7 pm, with two hours...
Page 329 - Legislature to provide (with certain reservations) that it shall not be lawful for any employer to make it a condition of employment that any workman shall join a shop club...
Page 439 - 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 505 - ... 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 585 - The last report of the Labour Association for promoting co-operative production, based on the co-partnership of the workers...