Die Textilindustrie sämtlicher Staaten

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Identifikator:: 1031019537

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-60551

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Kertész, Adolf http://d-nb.info/gnd/1013269713

Title:: Die Textilindustrie sämtlicher Staaten

Edition:: Zweite Auflage der "Textilindustrie Deutschlands im Welthandel"

Place of publication:: Braunschweig

Publisher:: Druck und Verlag von Fried. Vieweg & Sohn

Year of publication:: 1917

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XXVI, 741 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: A. Die Textilindustrie der europäischen Staaten

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SOCIALISM IN ENGLAND. 289 of rent, and it offered to any landowner, w^ho might prefer to relinquish his land, its full selling value. This would still be advantageous to the nation, “ since an individual never gives, in present money, for a remote profit, anything like what that profit is worth to the State, which is immortal.” * Whatever may be thought of the practicability of this proposal, it is not nearly so open to the charge of injustice as most of the schemes of land nationalization which are propounded to-day. All that can be said against it is, that unearned increment is not a peculiarity of property in land ; it occurs, for instance, in rail- ' way shares, which often increase in value solely “ through the growth of population and wealth.” We hear little, however, about this particular proposal to-day, partly because far more drastic measures are being pressed upon our attention, and partly, perhaps, because agricultural land in England has recently been falling in value—receiving, in fact, an unearned decrement—and its early recovery is a matter of doubt. The publication of “ Progress and Poverty,” early in 1881, gave a great impetus to the land nationalization movement. Its author, Henry George,f was born at Philadelphia, on the 2nd of September, 1839, of American parents. His father was desirous of giving him a thorough education, but the lad was self-willed and preferred to study in his own way. “ They teach nothing at the Academy that I don’t know or think I know already,” he said, and accordingly he was not sent to school after his twelfth year. When he was sixteen he went as cabin boy in a sailing-ship to India, because “ he had read so much about that unhappy country ” and wished to investigate for himself the state of affairs there. For some years he led a roving life without any settled employment In 1858 he worked his way on a merchant-vessel to San Francisco, and spent the next three years in unsuccessful mining enterprises. Finally, in 1861, he settled down in San Francisco, where he was successively * See J. S. Mill’s papers on Land Tenure in the fourth volume of his “Dissertations and Discussions.” t I have gleaned most of these biographical facts from a recently published sketch of Mr. George’s life by Mr. Henry Rose, editor of the //«// Express. U

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