Wealth and Welfare: Or, Our National Trade Policy and Its CostJ. Murray, 1887 - 274 páginas |
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A. V. DICEY acres action advantage agricultural produce Albemarle Street amount appears appreciation of gold average Bonamy Price bounties British capital and labour capitalist cent chapter cheaper colonies commercial policy Commissioners commodities competition conclusion condition considerable consumer consumption corn corn laws cotton Crown 8vo decrease depression diminished diminution distribution of wealth doubt drone duction duty effect employed employment England English estimate evidence export fact factures FAIR TRADE foreign trade free trade import income increase of population increase of production individual invested laws less Lord Dunraven loss manufacture matter means measure ment millions minority report moral nation natural natural selection necessary opinion paper paragraph perhaps pig iron political economy present principles profits proportion protection question quinquennial periods reader reduction regard seems Sir James Caird social statistics sugar sumer tariffs things tion truth United Kingdom wages welfare whole wool
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Página 183 - ... sides. Once more, if, instead of equal spherical shot, the masses to be piled are boulders, partially but irregularly rounded, and of various sizes, no definite stable form is possible. A loose heap, indefinite in its surface and angles, is all the labourer can make of them. Putting which several facts together, and asking what is the most general truth they imply, we see it to be this — that the character of the aggregate is determined by the characters of the units.
Página 154 - I do not see the use of underselling them : cottoncloth is already twopence a yard or lower, and yet bare backs were never more numerous among us. Let inventive men cease to spend their existence incessantly contriving how cotton can be made cheaper ; and try to invent a little how cotton at its present cheapness could be somewhat justlier divided among us.
Página 153 - I sometimes hear it said, depend on selling manufactured cotton at a farthing an ell cheaper than any other people. A most narrow stand for a great nation to base itself on! A stand which, with all the CornLaw abrogations conceivable, I do not think will be capable of enduring. "My friends, suppose we quitted that stand; suppose we came honestly down from it and said — 'This is our minimum of cotton prices; we care not, for the present, to make cotton any cheaper.
Página 161 - There is no feature in the situation which we have been called upon to examine so satisfactory as the immense improvement which has taken place in the condition of the working classes during the last twenty years.
Página 149 - I beg to express my dissent from paragraph 82. It contains a specific repudiation of the great doctrine of free trade. Shorter hours of labor do not, and cannot, compensate to a nation for increased cost of production or diminished output. They tax the community with dearer goods, in order to confer special advantages on the working man. They protect him, and that is a direct repudiation of free trade. The country is sentenced to dearer and fewer goods.
Página 154 - Let inventive men cease to spend their existence incessantly contriving how cotton can be made cheaper ; and try to invent a little how cotton at its present cheapness could be somewhat justlier divided among us. " Let inventive men consider — whether the secret of this universe does after all consist in making money. With a hell which means — ' failing to make money,' I do not think there is any heaven possible that would suit one well.
Página 153 - The Continental people, it would seem, are importing our machinery, beginning to spin cotton, and manufacture for themselves ; to cut us out of this market, and then out of that!
Página 182 - OUT of bricks, well burnt, hard, and sharp-angled, lying in heaps by his side, the bricklayer builds, even without mortar, a wall of some height that has considerable stability. With bricks made of bad materials, irregularly burnt, warped, cracked, and many of them broken, he cannot build a dry wall of the same height and stability. The dockyard-labourer, piling cannon-shot, is totally unable to make these spherical masses stand at all as the bricks stand.