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SAMPLES OF ANALYSIS
fiMAHY.— We may apply the principles we have been studying
to the analysis of a miscellaneous set of phenomena in
the social and industrial world, loth by way of exercise
and by way of testing the principles themselves. The
subjects chosen in this chapter are gambling, the housing
problem, unemployment, depression and crises, the im
mediate and permanent effects of attempts to relieve
distress, or of changes in expenditure, the meaning of the
national income and the legitimacy of inferring from it
the average command of commodities and services which
would accrue to each individual if wealth were more evenly
distributed.
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The systematic portion of our task is completed. It
pains to illustrate and test the value of the instrument
analysis which is now in our hands by applying it to
terete cases.
We may take our material almost at random. An in-
' u tion such as Trade Unionism; a programme such as the
|enre of “ communalising the instruments of production,”
he more limited proposals to nationalise or coinmunalise
land, or to feed ill-nourished school children; or matters
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playing cards for money, or betting on the turf, may
examination of any one of these questions we shall find