The Economic Journal: The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Economic Society, 10. köideMacmillan, 1900 Contains papers that appeal to a broad and global readership in all fields of economics. |
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Page 260 - Any house or part of a house so overcrowded as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the inmates, whether or not members of the same family:
Page 173 - Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.
Page 93 - Board), the principal Secretaries of State, the First Commissioner of the Treasury, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The...
Page 264 - Statistics as to the Operation and Administration of the Laws relating to the sale of Intoxicating Liquor in England and Wales for the year 1907.
Page 100 - Traders . . . not of an avaricious sordid Temper, but with much Humanity took Pleasure in directing Masters of Vessels, how they ought to avoid the Breach of the Acts of Trade.
Page 491 - From the present date, or any subsequent time at which the legislature may think fit to assert the principle, I see no objection to declaring that the future increment of rent should be liable to special taxation...
Page 497 - The ordinary progress of a society which increases in wealth Is at all times tending to augment the Incomes of landlords; to give them both a greater amount and a greater proportion of the wealth of the community, independently of any trouble or outlay incurred by themselves. They grow richer, as it were, in their sleep, without working, risking or economizing.
Page 135 - Thomas Mackay, A History of the English Poor Law. vol. iii. From 1834 to the present time. Being a supplementary volume to A History of the Poor Laws by Sir George Nicholls, 1899.
Page 227 - That the dollar consisting of twenty-five and eight-tenths grains of gold nine-tenths fine, as established by section thirty-five hundred and eleven of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall be the standard unit of value, and all forms of money issued or coined by the United States shall be maintained at a parity of value with this standard, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to maintain such parity.