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Das Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten

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Identifikator:: 1734847875

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-108830

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Godbersen, Rudolf http://d-nb.info/gnd/123790263

Title:: Theorie der forstlichen Oekonomik

Place of publication:: Neudamm

Publisher:: Neumann

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: 93 S.; graph. Darst.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Bisherige Behandlung und Abgrenzung der Theorie der forstlichen Oekonomik

Collection:: Economics Books

I Benjamin Franklin [1768 heavy an oppression!). That, on a slight complaint of a few Virginia merchants, nine colonies had been restrained from making paper money, become ab- solutely necessary to their internal commerce, from the constant remittance of their gold and silver to Britain. But not only the interest of a particular body of merchants, but the interest of any small body of British tradesmen or artificers, has been found, they say, to outweigh that of all the King’s subjects in the colonies. There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man’s making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands, provided he does not thereby hurt the state in general. Iron is to be found everywhere in America, and the beaver furs are the natural produce of that country. Hats, and nails, and steel are wanted there as well as here. It is of no importance to the common welfare of the empire, whether a subject of the King’s obtains his living by making hats on this or that side of the water. Yet the hatters of England have prevailed to obtain an act in their own favor, restraining that manufacture in America; in order to oblige the Americans to send their beaver to England to be manufactured, and purchase back the hats, loaded with the charges of a double transportation. In the same manner have a few nail-makers, and a still smaller body of steel-makers (perhaps there are not half a dozen of these in England), prevailed totally to forbid by an act of Parliament the erecting of slitting-mills, or steel-furnaces, in America; that the Americans may be obliged to take all their nails for 26

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