The Economic Journal: The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Economic Society, Том 31

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Macmillan, 1921
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Сторінка 85 - Conference, bring the recommendation or draft convention before the authority or authorities within whose competence the matter lies, for the enactment of legislation or other action.
Сторінка 226 - Therefore I must say that, as I hope for mercy, I can have no other notion of all the governments that I see or know than that they are a conspiracy of the rich, who, on pretence of managing the public, only pursue their private ends...
Сторінка 7 - The same conclusions, however, could have been drawn from a discussion of fishing, building of houses or canoes, of from a description of their big trading expeditions. All these activities are dependent upon the social power of the chief and the influence of the respective magicians. In all of them the quantity of the produce, the nature of the work and the manner in which it is carried out — all of which are essentially economic features — are highly modified by the social organisation of the...
Сторінка 294 - Thresh seed, and to fanning, September doth cry, Get plough to the field, and be sowing of rye: To harrow the ridges, ere ever ye strike, Is one piece of husbandry Suffolk doth like.
Сторінка 141 - Ireland and the Ulster Legend, or the Truth about Ulster. Statistical tables compiled from Parliamentary Blue Books and White Papers.
Сторінка 32 - WHEREAS the League of Nations has for its object the establishment of universal peace, and such a peace can be established only if it is based upon social justice; And whereas conditions of labour exist involving such injustice, hardship, and privation to large numbers of people as to produce unrest so great that the peace and harmony of the world are imperilled...
Сторінка 226 - ... so necessary, that no commonwealth could hold out a year without them, can only earn so poor a livelihood, and must lead so miserable a life, that the condition of the beasts is much better than theirs ? For as the beasts do not work so constantly, so they feed almost as well, and with more pleasure ; and have no anxiety about what is to come, whilst these men are depressed by a barren and fruitless employment, and tormented with the apprehensions of want in their old age...
Сторінка 350 - It is very difficult," he says, " for a man to say quantitatively that one boot pinches three times as much as the other, even where both are his own, and how much more difficult is it for one man to say that his boot pinches twice as much as another's...
Сторінка 226 - ... to die in great misery. The richer sort are often endeavouring to bring the hire of labourers lower, not only by their fraudulent practices, but by the laws which they procure to be made to that effect; so that though it is a thing most unjust in itself, to give such small rewards to those who deserve so well of the public, yet they have given those hardships the name and colour of justice, by procuring laws to be made for regulating them.
Сторінка 412 - To your Highness justly belongs the honour of dying for the people; and it cannot choose but be an unspeakable consolation to you in the last moments of your life, to consider, with how much benefit to the world you are like to leave it.

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