Economic essays

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Identifikator:: 1753623200

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-136107

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Economic essays

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: Macmillan

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: viii, 368 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: The malthusiad fantasia economica / James Bonar

Collection:: Economics Books

THE MALTHUSIAD: FANTASIA ECONOMICA 27 other systems, and it is just there that the change is greatest, and you have fared no better than Ricardo and the rest. You and he and all of them fell down.” SHADE: “I was an early supporter of Factory Acts. Put that to my credit.” Y. E.: “But a half-hearted repealer of the Corn Laws, if you could be called a repealer at all. Your concessions did credit to your heart, but they weakened your reasoning; and you did not withdraw them, like your precocious young friend, when you found them abused. But be comforted. Your other writings, books, articles, and letters, tell us much about you and we value them accordingly; but we count them all minor alongside of the Essay. You spoke of a gradual emendation. Travellers have corrected many of your illustrations from savage life, and our historians have mended your details of history. There was little folklore or archaeology in your day; and medical skill is much better now. In fact, Man on the Earth is much better known to us than you could know him. Our scientific men, too, Udny Yule, Pearl, Virgilii, have even amended your Ratios, without absolute agreement, it is true, about the substitute.” Supe: “I was quite prepared for that. My main point was a disproportion seen as soon as mentioned but hard to reduce to exact figures. In the concrete, the population of a country is always relative to its conditions, and it is seldom safe to make prophecies.” Y. E.: “You would applaud a shrewd remark made recently by a member of your Statistical Society, that in order to forecast population we must first forecast trade and production. Our age is ‘grown so picked’ that, instead of discussing ‘room and food’ like you, it discusses the optimum, said to be a botanical term here used for the number of working inhabitants just enough to produce sufficiency under a given standard of living. Relativity is thus forced upon our discussions, for the standard may vary with groups within the nation.” Suape: “I should have revelled in such topics. One soweth and another reapeth. I am glad something of my work remains, though its new shape makes it hard for me to recognize it. A man’s task is given to him from day to day, and he knows not which part of it will prosper. I may have wasted time over minor matters such as the question of a standard of value.”

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