Besides, the abundance of the wealth diffused on a sudden over the whole of Europe has caused an economic crisis.
At this period England was passing through a very grave economic crisis.
A well informed man, he took great interest in economic and fiscal questions, and was an active member of the Norwich Science Gossip Club.
The whole Mediterranean world, and the devastated area in Italy most of all, was shaken by the economic and social revolutions which the Roman wars brought in their train.
This is not a religious question, it is an economic question.
And in a flash: "The religious questions are economic questions," and all the seemingly wild utterances of old Jack Shives came back, like a sudden overwhelming flood at the breaking of a dam.
The world suffers the same kind of economic loss (less only in degree) that it suffered when Milton spent twenty years of his life in writing prose; and when Tolstoi forsook novels for theology.
Russell Smith, Professor of Economic Geography, Columbia University, New York My first experience with nut culture was gained on the farm of a man I knew more than 30 years ago.
They do not realize the enormous social and economic importance and consequence of work of the nut growers of today in the part that they play in the agriculture of the world for tomorrow.
To me the worst of all economic sins is the destruction of resources, and the worst of all resource destructions is the destruction of the soil, our one great and ultimate resource.
He who has property scattered over four continents and watches with absorbing interest all movements upon the political and economic stage may nevertheless be a thorough-going egoist.
He who takes his stand upon the other may talk of lust of dominion, or desire for economic advantage.
The pervading unrest of the modern economic community is due to the widespread conviction that the existing organization of society does not sufficiently make for the happiness of all.
The white man has added to his burden--the burden of economic advantage present or prospective--and we find it as it should be.
The social body of which man becomes, by the accident of birth, an involuntary member, may stand at any point in the scale of economic evolution.
For the present there did not lack a sense of economic precariousness: it was he and these trousers against the world.
The thousands of labourers' cottages which have sprung up, each with its plot of land, have been to the Irish labourers what the Land Acts have been to the farmer--they have completely transformed his economic status in the country.
The second remark, with which I shall close, lies in the moral and political rather than the economic field.
The first relates to the truly surprising regularity with which the phases of economic freedom and of economic regulation have succeeded each other.
This confused recasting of theeconomic world transfers the role played by the capitalists of the late Middle Ages in a class of new men.
What may still have survived in Italy and in Gaul of the economic system of the Romans has disappeared before the beginning of the eighth century.
My purpose is simply to characterize, for the various epochs of economic history, the nature of this capitalist and to search for his origin.
The commercial expeditions upon which its activity especially centres itself demand, for their successful conduct, an endurance, a physical strength, which the more advanced stages of economic evolution will not require.
In their turn, and as we have seen it at each great crisis of economic history, they retire from business and transform themselves into an aristocracy.
I believe that, for each period into which our economic history may be divided, there is a distinct and separate class of capitalists.
On the contrary, there are as many classes of capitalists as there are epochs in economic history.
The revenues which the landowners collect from their serfs or from their tenants are directed toward no economic purpose.
But while these first generations of capitalists are retiring from commerce and rooting themselves in the soil, important changes are going on in the economic organization.
Where the pressure is greatest--in the habitual practice of the political and economic chieftains--there it accommodates the most.
Every successful economic process, with its elaborate divisions and adjustments of labor, of materials and instruments, is just such an objective organization.
The association of science and philosophy with leisure, with a certain economic surplus, is not accidental.
The city-state was a superficial layer of cultured citizens, cultured through a participation in affairs made possible by relief from economic pursuits, superimposed upon the dense mass of serfs, artizans, and laborers.
To multiply such men with such interests--that is the genuine problem, I repeat; and it is a problem to be solved only through aneconomic and material redistribution.
When Adam Smith made economic activity the moving spring of man’s unremitting effort, from the cradle to the grave, to better his own lot, he recorded this change.
The only problem of the relation of Nature to human good which is real is the economic problem of the exploitation of natural resources in the equal interests of all, instead of in the unequal interests of a class.
Even the Navigation Laws, ugly blemish as they were, were strictly in accordance with the economic ideas of the time, and as such were introduced and accepted.
Men often create paper values, which disappear like snow before the summer sun when the operations of true economic principles attack them.
They are the peacemakers of the twentieth century, the protectors of the world's liberty, of free economic development, and of the weak nationalities of the earth.
The irregular development of the poor laws, from the act of Elizabeth down to that of 1834, belongs to economic rather than to general history.
In the year 1818 there was a temporary improvement in the economic condition of the country.
That it was not so worked, on the whole, and caused less hardship than had been anticipated, was not so much the result of changes in the government itself, as of economic progress in the nation, aided by a healthier growth of public opinion.
Not only were thousands and thousands of young men and women going across the sea to try to better their worldly status, but America had come to be looked upon as a spiritual as well as an economic land of promise.
With him the rapid economic rise of the family reached its height.
I beg of you to render a verdict that has due regard and consideration for the tragedy of our twentieth century civilization that does not as yet measure out economic justice.
By that I mean that in the world of shoes there are shoemakers, and in the world of boats there are seamen, and in this society there are economic categories called the employing class and the working class.
The other class can fold their arms, and they do most of the time, but our class has the economic power.
The most effective weapon of labor is economic power: the modern wage workers are the living parts of industry and if they fold their arms, they immediately precipitate a crisis, they paralyze the world.
The practically undiversified nature of its economic life binds all those engaged in the employment of labor into a common body.
They are widely cultivated in garden and greenhouse, and we may say that these plants make up in aesthetic value what they lack from an economic point of view.
Although the Vascular Cryptogams played an important part in helping to build up our vast stores of coal, it is astonishing to note of what little direct economic value they are to mankind at the present time.
He is an economicserf to an inconsiderate taskmaster.
In this way, then, the Cumberland Mountain no longer offered a barrier merely to the civilization of Kentucky, but to the solution of the greatest economic problem of the age--the cheapest manufacture of iron and steel.
Still other pleasures were of aneconomic or utilitarian nature.
Logical exactness, precision of language, and firm grasp of the true nature of economic facts, are the qualities characteristic of this as of all his other works.
Since the advent of the British power, the immigration of Hindus with a lower standard of comfort and of Chinamen with a keener business instinct has threatened the economic independence of the Burmese in their own country.
The interior is otherwise untouched by railways; indeed many of the villages in the interior can only be approached by paths; and this is one of the causes of the economic difficulties of Calabria.
In a word, judging the India Bill from a party point of view, we see that Burke was now completing the aim of his project of economic reform.
His earnings from this undertaking were expended on a six months' tour in France, Germany and Austria for the study of political and economic conditions.
It may, perhaps, be thought that Cairnes gives too little attention to the effects of the organism of society on economic facts, and that he is disposed to overlook what Bagehot called the postulates of political economy.
The Logical Method contains about the best exposition and defence of Ricardo's theory of rent; and the Essays contain a very clear and formidable criticism of Bastiat's economic doctrines.
Such works were evidently a sign that his mind was turning away from abstract speculation to the great political and economic fields, and to the more visible conditions of social stability and the growth of nations.
Her financial situation had already made fools of so many economic seers that they had become less and less didactic regarding her impending bankruptcy.
It was not a flattering summing up of a relationship, nor did its grim humor hide any more indulgent version of our economic value as neighbors.
The township and the hundred came also in for certain forms of collective responsibility, because they presented groups of people associated in their economic and legal interests.
Economic prudence dictates therefore that every year a considerable proportion of running salmon should be allowed to escape the dangers that confront them in the shape of nets, obstructions, pollutions, rods and poachers.
