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 Millionaires, and the Depopulation of the Rural Districts; with Suggested Remedies |
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acre actual afford AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION allotments amount average bad seasons benefit Buckinghamshire capital capitalists cause of depression census cent CHAPTER Cheshire classes colonies commercial depression comparatively continued Cornwall cottage cotton cultivation customers debt decrease demand depopulation depression of trade destitution Diagram diminished diminution distress Dumfriesshire effect England enormous estimated evidence evil excessive existence Exmoor expenditure expense exports extent facts farm farmers favourable financiers foreign loans Franco-German war Free Trade Granborough HENRY CRAIK High Wycombe important impoverished improvements industries injury interest Ireland John Stuart Mill labour land landlord large numbers less London Lord Carrington loss manufactures means ment millionaires millions nations obtained paupers peasant-farmers period political Poor Law portion poverty present depression produce profit prosperity purchasing power rent rural districts rural population Russo-Turkish war speculation SPENCER WALPOLE spent Sub-Districts suffered sumers taxation tenant tenure thousand towns wages wasted wheat whole
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Сторінка v - 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 Remedies.
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| Назва | 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 Millionaires, and the Depopulation of the Rural Districts; with Suggested Remedies |
| Автор | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Видавець | Macmillan and Company, 1885 |
| Оригінал із | Каліфорнійський університет |
| Оцифровано | 14 груд. 2007 |
| Обсяг | 118 стор. |
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