Economic Notes on Insular Free Trade, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Balfour, Arthur James

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ISBN 10: 1330087178 ISBN 13: 9781330087176

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Economic Notes on Insular Free Trade, Vol. 3

IN the following Paper I propose to discuss some of the more fundamental economic questions which (as I think) require consideration on the part of those who desire to arrive at a sober and unprejudiced estimate of our fiscal policy. The present controversy has brought into existence, or at least into notice, masses of statistical information, official and unofficial; the documentary flood is rising, and for some time to come is not likely to diminish. But in order that the volume of facts thus provided should instruct and not merely overwhelm us, it is necessary to consider it in the light of theories and principles, always, of course, open to revision in the light of experience, but without the provisional use of which experience itself can utter no intelligible oracles.

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Excerpt from Economic Notes on Insular Free Trade, Vol. 3

These Economic Notes were circulated to my colleagues in the first days of August substantially as they are now reprinted. A few alterations have been made, chiefly for the sake of clearness; and two brief illustrative tables have been added in an Appendix (p. 32). Though the argument is occasionally somewhat abstract, and occasionally somewhat compressed, I think that perhaps a larger circle than that for which the paper was originally written may like to have an opportunity of reading it. Hence its publication.

It is one of the difficulties inherent in the present controversy that some important points can hardly be made interesting, or even intelligible, on the platform without an amount of expansion and illustration which would render it impossible to put them in their proper setting within the limits of a single speech. The more general, and in some respects more theoretical, treatment of the problem attempted in this essay may, therefore, be a fitting preliminary to the statement which it will be the duty of the writer in a few days to make before a public audience.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330087178
• ISBN 13: 9781330087176
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 38