Introduction to Economics

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D. C. Heath, 1923 - 538 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 329 - What I, therefore, propose as the simple yet sovereign remedy which will raise wages, increase the earnings of capital, extirpate pauperism, abolish poverty, give remunerative employment to whoever wishes it, afford free scope to human powers, lessen crime, elevate morals and taste and intelligence, purify government and carry civilization to yet nobler heights is to appropriate rent by taxation.
الصفحة 401 - By reasonable thrift, we can produce a constant timber supply beyond our present need, and with it conserve the usefulness of our streams for irrigation, water supply, navigation, and power. Under right management, our forests will yield over four times as much as now.
الصفحة 344 - Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains.
الصفحة 77 - There are some sorts of industry, even of the lowest kind, which can be carried on nowhere but in a great town. A porter, for example, can find employment and subsistence in no other place. A village is by much too narrow a sphere for him; even an ordinary market town is scarce large enough to afford him constant occupation.
الصفحة 279 - A contract is an agreement between two or more persons to do or not to do a particular...
الصفحة 454 - Federal reserve banks are under the control and direction of the Federal Reserve Board, consisting of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Comptroller of the Currency, ex officio, and of five other members appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
الصفحة 520 - Food enactment of 1906, the creation of the Federal Reserve system in 1913, the Clayton Act and the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914, the...
الصفحة 330 - Such policies amount to confiscation and can only be justified on the ground that they are essential to general well-being. For centuries the law has permitted the private ownership and enjoyment of land. Pieces of land have changed hands on the average dozens of times in the United States, and present owners have in most cases acquired them not as free gifts of nature nor as grants from the Government, but by paying for them, just as they have had to pay for other species of property.
الصفحة 454 - It should be explained at this point that the country is divided into twelve districts, in each of which there is a federal land bank, an intermediate credit bank, a production-credit corporation and a bank for cooperatives.
الصفحة 330 - have changed hands, on the average, dozens of times in the United States, and present owners have in most cases acquired them, not as free gifts of Nature, nor as grants from the governmenc, but by paying for them, just as they have had to pay for other species of property.

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