The Problem of the UnemployedProblem of the Unemployed Publishing Company, 1905 - 277 sayfa |
Diğer baskılar - Tümünü görüntüle
Sık kullanılan terimler ve kelime öbekleri
acres agricultural amount of wealth applied artificial scarcity building capital and labor cent centers of population cities and towns coal beds consumed cultivation demand for labor duced economic rent effect employed employer employment of labor Enfield equal fact factors of production farm farmer free land greater hence idle improvements in labor-saving income increase of population increase wages industry instance interest and wages invested labor-saving processes land owners land value tax land values landlords law of rent law of supply less living lots ment million natural law paid payment personal property placer mining political economy portion privilege produce wealth production of wealth profit purchase rates of interest reduce result rewards of effort saving scarcity of land supply and demand tenant things thousand dollars tion tract of land unused land value of land wage fund wages of employees wealth produced wealth-producing enterprise wheat worth
Popüler pasajlar
Sayfa 211 - Your fate I believe to be certain, though it is deferred by a physical cause. As long as you have a boundless extent of fertile and unoccupied land...
Sayfa 273 - Every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man...
Sayfa 212 - I seriously apprehend that you will, in some such season of adversity as I have described, do things which will prevent prosperity from returning...
Sayfa 212 - Distress everywhere makes the laborer mutinous and discontented, and inclines him to listen with eagerness to agitators who tell him that it is a monstrous iniquity that one man should have a million while another cannot get a full meal.
Sayfa 211 - I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both. In Europe, where the population is dense, the effect of such institutions would be almost instantaneous.
Sayfa 213 - Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth, with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions.
Sayfa 273 - ... then each of them is free to use the earth for the satisfaction of his wants, provided he allows all others the same liberty. And conversely, it is manifest that no one, or part of them, may use the earth in such a way as to prevent the rest from similarly using it ; seeing that to do this is to assume greater freedom than the rest, and consequently to break the law. "Equity, therefore, does not permit property in land.
Sayfa 212 - ... strict observance of public faith. On the other is a demagogue ranting about the tyranny of capitalists and usurers, and asking why anybody should be permitted to drink champagne and to ride in a carriage, while thousands of honest folks are in want of necessaries. Which of the two candidates is likely to be preferred by a workingman who hears his children cry for more bread?
Sayfa 276 - Had we to deal -with the parties who originally robbed the human race of its heritage, we might make short work of the matter. But, unfortunately, most of our present landowners are men who have, either mediately or immediately— either by their own acts, or by the acts of their ancestors— given for their estates equivalents of honestly earned wealth, believing that they were investing their savings in a legitimate manner. To justly estimate and liquidate the claims of such, is one of the most...
Sayfa 211 - But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as Old England. Wages will be as low, and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your...