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

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Macmillan, 1913
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Pagina 238 - 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 331 - 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 454 - 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 223 - 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 439 - 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 572 - ... velocity of circulation." This fact gives it, as I think, a real advantage, because it brings us at once into relation with volition — an ultimate cause of demand — instead of with something that seems at first sight accidental and arbitrary. But...
Pagina 388 - There cannot be a greater error than the terrors so generally prevalent as to the over-issue of assignats. It is thus alone you will pay your debts, pay your troops, advance the revolution. Re-absorbed progressively, in the purchase of the national domains, this paper money can never become redundant, any more than the humidity of the atmosphere can become excessive, which descends in rills, finds the river, and is at length lost in the mighty ocean.
Pagina 350 - ... to provide for the medical inspection of children immediately before, or at the time of, or as soon as possible after, their admission to a public elementary school, and on such other occasions as the Board of Education direct, and the power to make such arrangements as may be sanctioned by the Board of Education for attending to the health and physical condition of the children educated in public elementary schools...
Pagina 302 - 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 143 - The sum so obtained shall bo the numerator of a fraction of which the denominator shall consist of the total gross business in dollars of the corporation, both within and...

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