Die obligatorische Krankenversicherung

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Identifikator:: 176840707X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-149526

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Die obligatorische Krankenversicherung

Place of publication:: Genf

Publisher:: Internationales Arbeitsamt

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: 892 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Erster Teil. Das Anwendungsgebiet

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EMIGRATION AND THE COLONIES 859 among capitalists at a very narrow margin of profit, and A.D. 1776 occasionally, by a not unnatural reaction, to outbursts of i850. wild speculation and consequent waste of capital’. From their point of view what we needed was additional land. “Neither by {provements of agriculture, nor by the im- portation of food, if these fall short of the power of the people to increase, is the competition of excessive numbers in all classes diminished in the least. By whatever means the field of employment for all classes is enlarged, unless it can be enlarged faster than capital and people can increase, no alteration will take place in profits or wages, or in any sort of remuneration for exertion; there is a larger fund, but a corresponding or greater increase of capital and people, 50 that competition remains the same, or may even go on becoming more severe. Thus a country may exhibit a rapid growth of wealth and population—such an increase of both as the world has not seen before—with direful competition within every class of society, excepting alone the few in whose hands very large properties have accumulated. * * * We trace the competition to want of room; that is to a deficiency of land in proportion to capital and people or an excess of capital and people in proportion to land. * * * If we could sufficiently check the increase of capital and people, that would be an appropriate remedy, but we cannot. Can were ez- . pounded by we then sufficiently enlarge the whole field of employment Wakefield. for British capital and labour, by means of sending capital and people to cultivate new land in other parts of the world ? If we sent away enough, the effect here would be the same as if the domestic increase of capital and people were suffi- ciently checked. But another effect of great importance would take place. The emigrants would be producers of food; of more food, if the colonisation were well managed, than they could consume; they would be growers of food and raw materials of manufacture for this country; we should buy their surplus food and raw materials with manu- factured goods. Every piece of our colonisation, therefore, would add to the power of the whole mass of newvsountries t Wakefleld, Art of Colonisation, 76. Mr Wakefield's letters are well worthy of perusal, as the observations of a judicious and far-seeing man on the actual sondition of and probable changes in England. See especially pp. 64—105.

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