Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy

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Longmans, Green, 1894 - 591 páginas

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Effects produced on international exchange by duties on exports
512
Comparison between Direct and Indirect
519
Is it desirable to defray extraordinary public expenses by loans?
530
The same subject continued
536
4 Law of compulsory equal division of inheritances
540
Laws of Partnership
541
Partnerships with limited liability Chartered Companies
542
Partnerships in commandite
545
Laws relating to insolvency
548
Of Interferences of Government grounded on Erroneous Theories 1 Doctrine of Protection to Native Industry
552
Usury Laws
559
Attempts to regulate the prices of commodities
561
Monopolies
562
Laws against Combination of Workmen
563
Restraints on opinion or on its publication
566
Of the Grounds and Limits of the Laisserfaire or NonInterference Principle 1 Governmental intervention distinguished into authoritative and unauth...
567
Objections to government interventionthe compulsory character of the intervention itself or of the levy of funds to support it
568
increase of the power and influence of government
570
superior efficiency of private agency owing to stronger interest in the work
571
importance of cultivating habits of collective action in the people
572
Laisser faire the general rule
573
but liable to large exceptions Cases in which the consumer is an incompetent judge of the commodity Education
575
Case of persons exercising power over others Protection of chil dren and young persons of the lower animals Case of women not analogous
577
Case of contracts in perpetuity
579
hours of labour disposal of colonial lands
581
Case of acts done for the benefit of others than the persons con cerned Poor Laws
584
Colonization
585
other miscellaneous examples
589
Government intervention may be necessary in default of private agency in cases where private agency would be more suitable
590

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Página 483 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Página 573 - Letting alone, in short, should be the general practice : every departure from it, unless required by some great good, is a certain evil.
Página 556 - The only case in which, on mere principles of political economy, protecting duties can be defensible, is when they are imposed temporarily (especially in a young and rising nation) in hopes of naturalizing a foreign industry, in itself perfectly suitable to the circumstances of the country.
Página 128 - If, therefore, the choice were to be made between Communism with all its chances, and the present state of society with all its sufferings and injustices; if the institution of private property...
Página 575 - Now any wellintentioned and tolerably civilized government may think without presumption that it does or ought to possess a degree of cultivation above the average of the community which it rules, and that it should therefore be capable of offering better education and better instruction to the people, than the greater number of them would spontaneously demand. Education, therefore, is one of those things which it is admissible in principle that a government should provide for the people.

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