The Economic Interpretation of History: (lectures Delivered in Worcester College Hall, Oxford, 1887-8)T. Fisher Unwin, 1888 - 547 стор. |
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... British agriculture , and as yet by ignorant discontent . But it is clear that the control of the landowner's power in the disposition of his rights . is imminent , that it is nearly completed in Ireland , that it is mak- ing great ...
... British agriculture , and as yet by ignorant discontent . But it is clear that the control of the landowner's power in the disposition of his rights . is imminent , that it is nearly completed in Ireland , that it is mak- ing great ...
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... British workman for improvidence and recklessness , without having troubled themselves to discover the very traceable historical causes which have induced that character on him . Perhaps the most remarkable Nemesis which has come on the ...
... British workman for improvidence and recklessness , without having troubled themselves to discover the very traceable historical causes which have induced that character on him . Perhaps the most remarkable Nemesis which has come on the ...
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... British industry would assuredly effect a diplomatic revolution in England , enforce the acknowledgment of Southern independence , and con- strain the inhabitants of the United Kingdom to reconsider their hatred of slavery . The ...
... British industry would assuredly effect a diplomatic revolution in England , enforce the acknowledgment of Southern independence , and con- strain the inhabitants of the United Kingdom to reconsider their hatred of slavery . The ...
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... British investors . I am confi- dently assured , by those who know the facts well , that at least two thousand millions sterling of such securities are held in Great Britain , and ear - marked on the Stock Exchange . We in Eng- land ...
... British investors . I am confi- dently assured , by those who know the facts well , that at least two thousand millions sterling of such securities are held in Great Britain , and ear - marked on the Stock Exchange . We in Eng- land ...
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... British commerce in the Eastern seas , and began the Eastern Empire . The Dutch East India Company was founded in 1603 , with a capital at least eight times as large as that of its English rival . Soon indeed the objects of the English ...
... British commerce in the Eastern seas , and began the Eastern Empire . The Dutch East India Company was founded in 1603 , with a capital at least eight times as large as that of its English rival . Soon indeed the objects of the English ...
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Сторінка 117 - 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.
Сторінка 386 - But it cannot be expected that individuals should, at their own risk, or rather to their certain loss, introduce a new manufacture, and bear the burden of carrying it on until the producers have been educated up to the level of those with whom the processes are traditional. A protecting duty, continued for a reasonable time, might sometimes be the least inconvenient mode in which the nation can tax itself for the support of such an experiment.
Сторінка 386 - 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.
Сторінка 386 - 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. The superiority of one country over another in a branch of production, often arises only from having begun it sooner. There may be no inherent advantage on one part, or disadvantage on the other, but only a present superiority...
Сторінка 339 - ... possessed a great empire on the west side of the Atlantic. This empire, however, has hitherto existed in imagination only. It has hitherto been, not an empire, but the project of an empire ; not a gold mine, but the project of a gold mine ; a project which has cost, which continues to cost, and which, if pursued in the same way as it has been hitherto, is likely to cost, immense...
Сторінка 11 - ... of price in all Eastern products, at the close of the first quarter of the sixteenth century, and found that it must have come from the conquest of Egypt. The river of commerce was speedily dried up. The cities which had thriven on it were gradually ruined, at least in so far as this source of their wealth was concerned. The Nile became flumen t'j'otiim Hedo in a commercial sense, and the trade of the Danube and the Rhine ceased. The Italian cities fell into rapid decay.
Сторінка 338 - The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a century, past, amused the people with the imagination that they possessed a great empire on the west side of the Atlantic. This empire, however, has hitherto existed in imagination only. It has hitherto been, not an empire, but the project of an empire...
Сторінка 110 - War the most disastrous struggle in which France was ever engaged. For all the wars in Europe, from the Peace of Utrecht to the outbreak of the great Continental War, were waged on behalf of monopolies of commerce, or, to be more accurate, monopolies of market, for success meant the exclusion of the beaten nation from the markets now secured by the victorious rival. At the end of the Seven Years' War France was stripped of nearly every colony she possessed.
Сторінка 11 - The cities which had thriven on it were gradually ruined, at least in so far as this source of their wealth was concerned, and the trade of the Danube and Rhine ceased. The Italian cities fell into rapid decay. The German nobles, who had got themselves incorporated among the burghers of the free cities, were impoverished, and betook themselves to the obvious expedient of reimbursing their losses by the pillage of their tenants. Then came the Peasants' war, its ferocious incidents, its cruel suppression,...