Volkswirtschaftliches Quellenbuch

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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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1 Essays they are able to provide them among themselves: and the last, which are much the greatest part, they will strike off immediately. They are mere articles of fashion, purchased and consumed because the fashion in a respected country; but will now be de- tested and rejected. The people have already struck off, by general agreement, the use of all goods fashionable in mournings, and many thousand pounds’ worth are sent back as unsalable. Q. Is it their interest to make cloth at home? A. 1 think they may at present get it cheaper from Britain; I mean of the same fineness and workmanship; but, when one considers other cir- cumstances, the restraints on their trade, and the difficulty of making remittances, it is their interest to make every thing. Q. Suppose an act of internal regulations con- nected with a tax; how would they receive it? A. 1 think it would be objected to. Q. Then no regulation with a tax would be sub- mitted to? A. Their opinion is, that, when aids to the crown are wanted, they are to be asked of the several assem- blies, according to the old established usage; who will, as they always have done, grant them freely. And that their money ought not to be given away, with- out their consent, by persons at a distance, unac- quainted with their circumstances and abilities. The granting aids to the crown is the only means they have of recommending themselves to their sovereign; and they think it extremely hard and unjust, that a body of men, in which they have no representatives, 50; 97

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