Girowesen im griechischen Ägypten, enthaltend Korngiro, Geldgiro, Girobanknotariat mit Einschluss des Archivwesens

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Identifikator:: 893136298

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-77125

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Preisigke, Friedrich http://d-nb.info/gnd/116281871

Title:: Girowesen im griechischen Ägypten, enthaltend Korngiro, Geldgiro, Girobanknotariat mit Einschluss des Archivwesens

Place of publication:: Strassburg im Elsass

Publisher:: Verlag von Schlesier & Schweikhardt

Year of publication:: 1910

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 575 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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188 SA INTERNATIONAL TRADE One disturbing factor has done much to cause it to move quickly from one of these regions to another. A parasitic fungus readily attacks the plant. On fresh soils some years may pass before the wilt gets the upper hand; when it does, either there must be remedial measures or transfer to another region of virgin and uninfected soil. This peculiar difficulty explains the rapidity with which the crop flashes up in great quantities in one region, then disappears from this to appear in equal volume in another of the same type that is distant. As regards its general economic characteristics, flax seed belongs to those products of extensive agriculture in which the American farmer puts his energies to best advantage. And that advantage rests not merely on the physical basis of abundant good land and suitable climate ; it rests also on the utilization of the natural resources thru agricultural machinery, cheap transportation, the minimum use of muscle and hand tools, the maximum use of intelligence and of elaborated machines.! I turn now to another set of illustrations, derived from the tariff problems and tariff experiences of the United States with manufactured articles. The economic field is different, but the same principles hold. The iron manufacture grew enormously during the period of high protection. How far the growth was caused by protection, how far was due to other causes, is a moot question, which I have considered in the volume already referred to.2 What is significant for the present inquiry is that protection proved curiously uneven in its operations: In some branches of the industry was quite 1 An admirable account of the contrast between the two phases of flax culture, and of the phases of economic history which it illustrates is given in an article by Mr. W. S. Barker, in the Quarterly Journal of Economics for May, 1917 (Vol. 31, p- 500). Russia is (or was) a producer both of fibre and of seed, the fibre as a rule not of fine quality.. I have been unable to secure information about the relations between this flax culture and the general agricultural conditions of Russia. Agri- culture in Russia is extensive, and in some respects shows frontier conditions; but it is not machine-using agriculture. I suspect that the conjunction of flax fibre (not fine) with flax seed is connected with the co-existence of plentiful land and primi- tive agricultural methods. 2 Some Aspects of the Tariff Question, Part III, especially Ch. 10. Tg

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