The shadow of the world's future, or The earth's population possibilities & the consequences of the present rate of increase of the earth's inhabitants

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Identifikator:: 1775636852

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-164018

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Author:: Knibbs, George Handley http://d-nb.info/gnd/1045010944

Title:: The shadow of the world's future, or The earth's population possibilities & the consequences of the present rate of increase of the earth's inhabitants

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Ernest Benn Limited

Year of publication:: (1928)

Scope:: 131 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VIII. International economics and migration

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAPTER VIII INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND MIGRATION [N a purview of world-affairs the two great elements which stand out unmistakably as calling for serious consideration are of course international economics and migration. The late war has shown that the interests of mankind are so interlocked that war is an international disaster. The wrongs and damage borne even by unoffending parties were such that, so long as the war lasted, innocent individuals were suffering, and however much some nations managed to profit through the calamities of others, and however great the fortunes made by individuals, internationally the war was a disaster of the first order, and its evil fruit is not yet done with. Since the greater issues between peoples concern their national systems of economics, and the freest possible movement of other peoples through their territories, it will be appropriate to consider these matters, for they must act upon the world’s future growth. In regard to economic issues all existing national attitudes are egoistic, and within the nations themselves they are individualistic. Attempts to obtain an undue control of important products, and to take full advantage of such control whenever it can be acquired, have been asserted not only as between nation and nation, but also against one’s own nation by its own citizens. As an indication of things that are happening, a system of world-survey of economic developments has already been formulated and put into partial execution, in order to give the nation an

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