International trade

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Identifikator:: 1758394757

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-136209

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Taussig, Frank William http://d-nb.info/gnd/120199459

Title:: International trade

Place of publication:: New York, NY

Publisher:: Macmillan

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: XXI, 425 Seiten; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. Problems of verification

Collection:: Economics Books

182 INTERNATIONAL TRADE JET em effectiveness of all the labor needed to bring an article to market is meant; not merely that of the labor immediately and obviously applied (like that of the farmer), but that of the inventor and maker of threshing-machines and gangplows, and that of the manager and worker on the railways and ships. In other indus- tries, even more markedly than in agriculture, the labor of the directing heads, of the planners and designers, tells in high degree for the final effectiveness of the labor which is applied thru all the successive stages. But in agriculture as practiced in the United States the guiding and contriving mind tells more than in the agriculture of any other country. The heart of the country, the main source of its prosperity and power, is in the great central plain, the valleys of the Mississippi and Missouri. Here is the region of extensive cultivation, of agricultural machinery, the one-family farm. True, during the harvest season there is a heavy demand for agricultural laborers, met in large part by transients. It is true, further, that the stage of pioneer farming has been passed or is rapidly being passed, that rotation is becoming more systematic and skilful, the land more valuable, cultivation more intensive. Nevertheless this remains the region of the one-family farm. The farmers “ride on their stirring plows and cultivators” and in this way do most of the work on their lands for themselves. No economic and social situation of this kind has ever before appeared in the world’s history. Land in plenty, no density of population, the labor power spread thin over the land, an agricultural output large per unit of man-power but not large per unit of area; farms large in acreage, and capitalistic production (in the sense that much machinery is used) ; the labor of agriculture done mainly by the owners of the soil; no sharp cleavage between land owners and land workers; little inequality in economic and social status, a high general level of prosperity; a landed class not rich and not poor, not highly cultured but far from inert or dull. The phe- nomenon is unique in history. What all this means with reference to the present inquiry is brought out perhaps best of all by one striking episode: the

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