The Economic Journal: The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Economic Society, Том 4Macmillan, 1894 Contains papers that appeal to a broad and global readership in all fields of economics. |
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Adam Smith advantage agricultural amount Austrian school average bank bill bimetallism Brixworth capital cause cent classes coal Colonies commodities competition conclusion considerable consumption cost of production currency decrease demand disutility duty economic equilibrium ECONOMIC JOURNAL economists Edgeworth effect Eight Hours Day employed employers England English exports fact fall farm favour foreign France Germany gold prices Gothenburg Government GUSTAV COHN important income tax increase India industrial interest labour land legislation less London marginal utility measure ment métayage obtained opinion pauperism persons political economy population present principle Prof Professor profits proportion quantity question railway ratio reduced regard rent result revenue Ricardo rupee silver social socialistic society standard statistics supply tariff taxation theory tion Trade Union United United Kingdom utility W. J. ASHLEY wages whole writer
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