The Economic Journal: The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Economic Society, Volume 23

Voorkant
Macmillan, 1913
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Pagina 244 - I hold labour to be essentially variable, so that its value must be determined by the value of the produce, not the value of the produce by that of the labour.
Pagina 636 - Administration of the Poor Law, the Unemployed Workmen Act, and the Old Age Pensions Act.
Pagina 339 - Napoleon. As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick ; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.
Pagina 462 - Bessemer iron ores which average less than 0.05 percent phosphorus as it requires approximately 1.8 tons of ore to produce one ton of pig iron. Quoting from the Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on the Steel Industry, Part III, printed in 1913, the average book cost of Bessemer pig iron produced by the furnaces of the Steel Trust 1902 to 1906 inclusive, are given, representing a production of 51,902,699 tons. Average costs per gross ton...
Pagina 447 - The term profit-sharing is applied to "those cases in which an employer agrees with his employees that they shall receive in partial remuneration of their labour, and in addition to their wages, a share, fixed beforehand, in the profits realized by the undertaking to which the profit-sharing relates.
Pagina 229 - the road between this place and London is grown so infamously bad that we live here in the same solitude as we would do if cast on a rock in the middle of the ocean ; and all the Londoners tell us that there is between them and us an impassable gulf of mud.
Pagina 386 - Wherever a carrier by railroad shall in competition with a water route or routes reduce the rates on the carriage of any species of freight to or from competitive points it shall not be permitted to increase such rates unless after hearing by the Commission it shall be found that such proposed increase rests upon changed conditions other than the elimination of water competition.
Pagina 310 - The re-adjustment of the relations between the Secretary of State for India and the Government of India; and (g) A liberal measure of Local Self-Government.
Pagina 393 - One comes to a new book by Mr. Hobson with mixed feelings, in hope of stimulating ideas and of some fruitful criticisms of orthodoxy from an independent and individual standpoint, but expectant also of much sophistry, misunderstanding, and perverse thought The book is .... made much worse than a really stupid book could be, by exactly those characteristics of cleverness and intermittent reasonableness which have borne good fruit in the past.
Pagina 386 - Whenever a carrier by railroad shall in competition with a water route or routes reduce the rates on the carriage of any species of freight to or from competitive points, it shall not be permitted to increase such rates unless after hearing by the Interstate Commerce Commission...

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