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... reduced by high railway rates . Under protection , Cobden said the manufacturers ' profits were curtailed by the high price of bread . But they did charge them then on the foreign consumer . Who bears them nowadays ? trade under present ...
... reduced by high railway rates . Under protection , Cobden said the manufacturers ' profits were curtailed by the high price of bread . But they did charge them then on the foreign consumer . Who bears them nowadays ? trade under present ...
Page 23
... reduced till an equi- librium was effected between fresh supply and this new state of demand . Now it was during this period of diminished production that distress prevailed . But who was responsible for the excessive speculation lead ...
... reduced till an equi- librium was effected between fresh supply and this new state of demand . Now it was during this period of diminished production that distress prevailed . But who was responsible for the excessive speculation lead ...
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... reduce rents . " But we may here remark that the evil consequences of that econom- ical fallacy have not fallen upon ... reduction in the amount of protection afforded to agriculture . There happened to be in existence during the whole ...
... reduce rents . " But we may here remark that the evil consequences of that econom- ical fallacy have not fallen upon ... reduction in the amount of protection afforded to agriculture . There happened to be in existence during the whole ...
Page 30
... reducing the silk - duties from the level of prohibition to what he deemed a due and proper protection , erred not in the object which he had in view , which was a meritorious one , but in the means by which he attempted to effect it ...
... reducing the silk - duties from the level of prohibition to what he deemed a due and proper protection , erred not in the object which he had in view , which was a meritorious one , but in the means by which he attempted to effect it ...
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... REDUCED TO A SYSTEM OF FREE IMPORTS INTO GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND -HOW UNEQUAL COMPETITION IS PRACTISED TO OUR ... REDUCTION OF WAGES - THE TENDENCY TOWARDS HIGH WAGES WHEN LABOUR IS FULLY OCCUPIED . " " 66 " " ยง 3. The results of ...
... REDUCED TO A SYSTEM OF FREE IMPORTS INTO GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND -HOW UNEQUAL COMPETITION IS PRACTISED TO OUR ... REDUCTION OF WAGES - THE TENDENCY TOWARDS HIGH WAGES WHEN LABOUR IS FULLY OCCUPIED . " " 66 " " ยง 3. The results of ...
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action agricultural labourers artificial demand assert become free-traders Bonamy Price British manufacturer capital causation cause Chartist cheap bread cheaper Cobden commercial competition consequences consumer Corn Laws cost of transit cultivation currency demand for labour depression destroy distress duties effect England existence export trade fact factor farmers favourable fluctuation forces foreign markets free imports free intercourse free-trade policy gain high price home markets Huskisson increased induced industries influence intercourse in corn interest John Bright labouring classes landlords Lord Overstone manu means monopoly nations natural operation opinion period perity political predicted present price of bread price of corn price of wheat principle of free produce profits progress prosperity protection protectionists question railway reduced reforms remunerative repeal result Richard Cobden rivals selfish Sir Robert Peel soil sources stimulate supply surrounding conditions system of free tendency Thorold Rogers tion trade in corn unequal universal free trade wages William Huskisson