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Abstract/Sommario: The present load of taxation - Restoring the citizen's money - The restoration and cost of voluntary social services - The gain from voluntaru social services - The reform of taxation - The end of the argument.

Abstract/Sommario: The trend tow ards planning - International implications of national planning.

Abstract/Sommario: Changes in demand, industrial technique, and the attitude of the state - Electricity and new developments in engineering - New models of transport - New materials - The canning of foodstuffs - State assistance and new industrial development - The new industries and the national economy.

Abstract/Sommario: The coming of capitalism - Risk and reward - Wayward nature - Capitalism at its best - Chaos or plan - Profit and price - Points of view - The problem of equality - Private property and competition - Population and progress - Trusts and combinations.

Abstract/Sommario: Introductory - Types of newspapers - The organisation of newspaper companies - The Harmsworth interests - the Berry group - Other groups - Trade Union organisation - Wages and conditions - Hours - Other conditions - Relations with employers - Conclusion - The influence of the press.

Abstract/Sommario: General - Causes of friction and unrest - Cost of living - Methods of compensation - House of work - Tenure of employment - Trade unionism - Labor disputes and adjustment - Industrial insurance - Methods of promoting industrial peace - Occupational hygiene - Women in industry.

Abstract/Sommario: Holding companies: their origin and economic position - Amalgamations and mergers - Finance and control of holding companies - Inter-company affairs - The balance sheets of holding companies - The "legal" balance sheet - The "legal" balance sheet, together with separate balance sheets of subsidiary companies - The "consolidated" balance sheet - Worked example of a "consolidated" balance sheet with notes thereon - The dangers and abuses of holding company organizations - Income tax and ...; [Leggi tutto...] Holding companies: their origin and economic position - Amalgamations and mergers - Finance and control of holding companies - Inter-company affairs - The balance sheets of holding companies - The "legal" balance sheet - The "legal" balance sheet, together with separate balance sheets of subsidiary companies - The "consolidated" balance sheet - Worked example of a "consolidated" balance sheet with notes thereon - The dangers and abuses of holding company organizations - Income tax and super-tax in relation to holding companies.

Abstract/Sommario: Causation: The general characteristics of industrial fluctuations - The problem - Changes in expectations as proximate causesof changes in the demanda for labour - Real causes behind varying expectations of profit from industrial spending among business men - Repercussions not through psychology - The structure of modern industry and opportunities for errorsof forecast - The mutual generation of errors of optimism and errors of pessimism - Autonomous monetary causes of industrial fluct ...; [Leggi tutto...] Causation: The general characteristics of industrial fluctuations - The problem - Changes in expectations as proximate causesof changes in the demanda for labour - Real causes behind varying expectations of profit from industrial spending among business men - Repercussions not through psychology - The structure of modern industry and opportunities for errorsof forecast - The mutual generation of errors of optimism and errors of pessimism - Autonomous monetary causes of industrial fluctuations - Instrumental and consumption trades - The real wages bill and the creation of new capital - The supply of new capital . Monetary and banking arrangements ad a condition affecting the operation of non-monetary initiating causes -Creations of bank credit - Credit creations and the associated real levies - Factors determining price changes - The modification of the termsof pas contracts - the reflex influence of price movements on the expectations of business men - Price changes due to changes in productivity - Functional influences connected with the notion of spoiling the market - The part played by rigidity in wage-rates - The part played by imperfect mobility of labour - The comparative importance of various factors in determining the amplitude of indusrial fluctuations - Rhythm or periodicity - Remedies.

Abstract/Sommario: Wealth the product of ideas - Why poverty remains - An unorganized nation faces war - The national organization of the munitions supply - The nationalization of shipping - The national food supply - The national synthesis of 1914-1918 - The resumption of disorder - The existing national framework - The business man and the official - "Extravagant and wasteful" - First things first - The national and the international - Of orders and freedoms.

Abstract/Sommario: Sources of information - Growth of world population - Migration movements - Natural increase - Deaths - Births - The decline in fertility - The small family system - The balance of births and deaths - The situation in Europe - European continental migration - European overseas - The regulation of european oversea movements - The european migration problem - Attempts to raise the birth-rate - Japan and India - Other non-european peoples - Primitive peoples - Non-european and migration - ...; [Leggi tutto...] Sources of information - Growth of world population - Migration movements - Natural increase - Deaths - Births - The decline in fertility - The small family system - The balance of births and deaths - The situation in Europe - European continental migration - European overseas - The regulation of european oversea movements - The european migration problem - Attempts to raise the birth-rate - Japan and India - Other non-european peoples - Primitive peoples - Non-european and migration - Conclusion.