Organizacion política y económica de la Confederacion Argentina, que contiene: 1. Bases y puntos de partida para la organización política de la República Argentina; 2. Elementos del derecho público provincial argentino; 3. Sistema económico y rentístico de la Confederacion Argentina; 4. De la Integridad nacional de la República Argentina, bajo todos sus gobiernos

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Identifikator:: 825824427

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-50636

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Alberdi, Juan Bautista http://d-nb.info/gnd/118644254

Title:: Organizacion política y económica de la Confederacion Argentina, que contiene: 1. Bases y puntos de partida para la organización política de la República Argentina; 2. Elementos del derecho público provincial argentino; 3. Sistema económico y rentístico de la Confederacion Argentina; 4. De la Integridad nacional de la República Argentina, bajo todos sus gobiernos

Edition:: Nueva edicion oficial, corregida y revisada por el autor

Place of publication:: Besanzon

Publisher:: Impr. de José Jacquin

Year of publication:: 1856

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 870 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Bo INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WAGES war standards of living and volume of business would be normal now. Normalcy is a vastly higher and more com- fortable standard than 1913. We must not judge the state of business activity by pre-war figures, but by a highly increased base. There has been in the past decade an unparalleled growth of our industrial and commercial efficiency and our conse- quent ability to consume. I do not refer to that growth of productivity which should naturally be expected to accom- pany the increment of 14 millions of our population during the last decade, nor do I refer to the increase in dollar figures due to higher prices. . . . But exhaustive study from many angles of production over average periods ten years apart, before and since the war, would indicate that while our pro- ductivity should have increased about 15 per cent., due to the increase in population, yet the actual increase has been from 25 to 30 per cent. indicating an increase in efficiency of somewhere from 10 to 15 per cent. . . . We have been able to add to our standards of living by the more general distri- bution of many articles which were either altogether luxuries ten years ago, or which were luxuries to a large portion of the population. Thus an increased proportion of the popu- lation are using electric lights, telephones, automobiles and better housing—and have added movies and what not to their daily routine. A rough estimate would show that we could to-day supply each person the same amount of commodities that he consumed ten years ago, and lay off about 2,000,000 from work. Some people have looked upon these additions of new com- modities and services in the daily expenditure of our people as representing extravagances, but as a matter of fact they are no entrenchment upon savings. They are the product of better organized effort. I wish to impress again that I am not confusing the natu- ral increment that would arise from increased population, or not confusing the increased dollar figures due to higher prices, but that this is an actual increase of commodities and

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