The Tariff ProblemP. S. King, 1904 - 269 стор. |
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abroad abstract Adam Smith advantage agricultural already American argument average Board of Trade bread Britain British Empire British shipping Canada Canadian capital cent cheap cheaper coal Cobden colonies commercial competition considerable Corn Laws cost cotton depression direction doctrine duty economic economists effect Empire England English evidence export trade factory legislation factures favour figures foreign market Free Trade German Government imports increase interest jute labour Lancashire London machinery Manchester manu manufactures matter means ment millions Mother Country movement nation natural observers ORCHARD HOUSE organisation P. S. KING pauperism period Political Economy ports position preferential present price of wheat principle probably production Professor Protection Protectionism quantity quoted raw material reached recent recognised Report Russia self-governing colonies social staple industries statistics supply syndicates tariff things tion tonnage tons true United Kingdom Vereins für Socialpolitik wages wheat whole yarn
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Сторінка 34 - After all that has been said of the levity and inconstancy of human nature, it appears evidently from experience that a man is of all sorts of luggage the most difficult to be transported.
Сторінка 3 - The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man...
Сторінка 23 - No regulation of commerce can increase the quantity of industry in any society beyond what its capital can maintain. It can only divert a part of it into a direction into which it might not otherwise have gone...
Сторінка 28 - There may be good policy in retaliations of this kind, when there is a probability that they will procure the repeal of the high duties or prohibitions complained of. The recovery of a great foreign market will generally more than compensate the transitory inconveniency of paying dearer during a short time for some sorts of goods.
Сторінка 4 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Сторінка 28 - The case in which it may sometimes be a matter of deliberation, how far, or in what manner it is proper to restore the free importation of foreign goods, after it has been for some time interrupted, is, when particular manufactures, by means of high duties or prohibitions upon all foreign goods which can come into competition with them, have been so far extended as to employ...
Сторінка 147 - That the Prime Ministers of the Colonies respectfully urge on his Majesty's Government the expediency of granting in the United Kingdom preferential treatment to the products and manufactures of the Colonies either by exemption from or reduction of duties now or hereafter imposed.
Сторінка 48 - With the progress of society the natural price of labour has always a tendency to rise, because one of the principal commodities by which its natural price is regulated, has a tendency to become dearer, from the greater difficulty of producing it.
Сторінка 32 - Humanity may in this case require that the freedom of trade should be restored only by slow gradations, and with a good deal of reserve and circumspection.
Сторінка 95 - Congress to relieve the present situation, it is only a question of time, and a very short time at that...