Perils to British Trade |
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Author:
| Burgis, Edwin |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-26955-1 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. CAPITAL AND LABOUR. The Relations of Labour and Capital as expressed by Orthodox Political Economy?The Competition of Individuals the Modern Basis of Trade?The Gospel of Individualism ?Two Great Events in Europe?Political Economy Relegated to Jupiter and Saturn?Capital, its Rights and...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. CAPITAL AND LABOUR. The Relations of Labour and Capital as expressed by Orthodox Political Economy?The Competition of Individuals the Modern Basis of Trade?The Gospel of Individualism ?Two Great Events in Europe?Political Economy Relegated to Jupiter and Saturn?Capital, its Rights and Obligations in regard to Land and Labour?Labour has a Lieu upon Capital?Under Free Trade, Capital is Divorced from Alliance with Labour, and from the Soil?Under Protection, Capital is compelled to assist Labour and the Commonwealth?Protective Relations with the Colonies? An Equitable Reciprocity?Mr. Medley's Selfish National Point of View. THE orthodox political economy which got established during the beginning of this century, and which is breaking down during its later years, endeavoured to systematise on a new basis, and with new definitions, the relations of labour and capital. The basis of the reasoning of that school was that of selfishness and individualism, and, as a system, it was really the grand ethical discovery of the philosophers of atheism and of the French Revolution, in the chaos which followed the disruption of society and destruction of institutions in France at that period. With all its affectation of enlightenment, it was really a relapse into paganism and barbarism, andwith all its wild and dramatic appeals to liberty, it was really a system whose logical outcome ensured the economic slavery of nations, and of the non- propertied classes. It made competition?the competition of individuals?the basis of society and of trade, and it founded this, again, on the monstrous induction that the only constant and dependable motive of human nature was, is, and would ever be, selfishness. In effecting the disruption of the old order, its new gospe...