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Identifikator:: 1010911953

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-20641

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Gide, Charles http://d-nb.info/gnd/117543985; Rist, Charles http://d-nb.info/gnd/172332966

Title:: Geschichte der volkswirtschaftlichen Lehrmeinungen

Edition:: Nach der zweiten durchgesehenen und verbesserten Ausgabe, herausgegeben von Franz Oppenheimer

Place of publication:: Jena

Publisher:: Verlag von Gustav Fischer

Year of publication:: 1913

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XXII, 828 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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THE REACTION OF COMMERCE ON LANDED INTERESTS 541 Tories!; but the opinion gained ground in favour of not A.D. 1689 only protecting but of stimulating agriculture, and the ie desirability of granting a premium on export was suggested in 16832 This expedient was adopted in 1689, and a butby bounty was given on the export when the price ranged sy si below 48s?; this was continued, with suspensions in the of abort four famine years of 1698, 1709, 1740, 17574 The result of this measure was very remarkable; from this time on- wards corn was treated as a commodity to be grown for export. This policy was almost exclusively English®, but it had been pursued, at least occasionally, in this country since the agricultural depression of the fifteenth century®. The result which followed was twofold; first, the landed interest was so far relieved from loss by low prices, in the case of a plentiful harvest, that there was a distinct in- ducement to invest capital in the land; and secondly, by encouraging such extensive production of corn there was some security that the food supply of the people would not be deficient. By promoting the growth of corn, to serve and thus as a commodity for export in favourable seasons, a motive was The amaed brought into play for growing as much as would meet the {57.2 home consumption in unfavourable years. The ulterior tazation. political aim’ of this measure was clear; it was intended to render agriculture more profitable, and so to bring about a rise of rents. By far the larger share of the taxation of the country fell on the landed gentry®. The Tories aimed at diverting this burden to other shoulders; but the Whigs schemed to foster the agricultural Interest, so that the 1 R. Faber, Die Entstehung des Agrarschutzes in England, 111. 2 Ib. 113. 8 William and Mary, 1. c. 12, An Act for the Encouraging the Exportation of Corn. As Faber points out, Dalrymple's assertion (Memoirs, pt. 11. 74) that the measure was passed in order to disarm Tory opposition to an increased Land Tax is not well founded. R. Faber, Die Entstehuny des Agrarschutzes, 112. ¢ C. Smith, Three Tracts, 73. 5 Faber, op. cit. 2. 6 Vol. 1. p. 447. 7 The improvement of agriculture also afforded a commodity for export and increased the employment of shipping. N. Forster, Enquiry tnto the Causes of the present high price of Provisions (1767), p. 70. Dr Johnson, Considerations of the Corn Laws, in Works, v. 321. 8 According to Locke this was inevitable in any scheme of taxation. Com. siderations of the Lowering of Interest, in Works, 1v. 57. See p. 426 above, also 839 below.

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