Bad Times - An Essay on the Present Depression of Trade: Tracing It to Its Sources in Enormous Foreign Loans, Excessive War Expenditure, the Increase of Speculation and of Millionaires, and the Depopulation of the Rural Districts; With Suggested RemediesRead Books Ltd, 25 трав. 2016 р. - 134 стор. This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1885 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Bad Times' is an essay on the economics and policies of trade and governmental expenditure. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823 in the village of Llanbadoc, in Monmouthshire, Wales. Wallace was inspired by the travelling naturalists of the day and decided to begin his exploration career collecting specimens in the Amazon rainforest. He explored the Rio Negra for four years, making notes on the peoples and languages he encountered as well as the geography, flora, and fauna. While travelling, Wallace refined his thoughts about evolution and in 1858 he outlined his theory of natural selection in an article he sent to Charles Darwin. Wallace made a huge contribution to the natural sciences and he will continue to be remembered as one of the key figures in the development of evolutionary theory. |
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The Criteria of a True Explanation | |
Foreign Loans | |
Increase of War Expenditure | |
Rural Depopulation | |
Millionaires a Cause of Depression | |
Speculation and Finance | |
Adulteration and Dishonesty | |
The Wide Area of Depression | |
Remedies | |
Financial and Commercial Remedies | |
The Remedy for Agricultural Depression | |
The Remedy for Rural Depopulation | |
Pauperism in England and in Ireland | |
The Agricultural Depression | |
Summary and Conclusion | |
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absolute actual adduced adulteration afford agricultural depression ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE allotments amount average bad seasons benefit Buckinghamshire bushels an acre capital capitalists cause of depression census cent CHAPTER classes commercial depression comparatively considerable continued Cornwall cottage crops cultivation customers debt decrease demand depopulation depression of trade despotic destitution diminished diminution distress Dorset Dumfriesshire effect England enormous estimate evil excessive Exmoor expenditure expense exports extent facts farm farmers foreign loans FrancoGerman Granborough High Wycombe important impoverished improvements incomes increased industries injury interest Ireland John Stuart Mill labour land landlord large numbers less Little’s Report Lord Carrington loss manufactures millionaires millions Mongredien nations obtained outdoor relief overproduction paupers peasantfarmers period portion present depression produce profits prosperity purchasing power remedy rent RURAL DEPOPULATION rural districts rural population speculation spent subdistricts suffered taxation tenant tenure thousand towns wages wasted wellbeing wheat whole workhouses