A Treatise On The Industry Of Nations Or

Author : J. Eisdell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528146234
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book A Treatise on the Industry of Nations, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by J. Eisdell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treatise on the Industry of Nations, Vol. 1 of 2 How great an influence a single false position in the outset has on the whole bearing of a subject, is often exemplified in the works of those writers who have followed the doctrines of the late Professor Malthus on population. This author assumed, that the natural rate of the progress of population far outruns the possible means of sup porting such increase. On this assumption almost the whole drift of his arguments turns, and on it all his conclusions rest, with regard to the necessity of restraining that increase, as the only effectual means by which the condition of the working classes may be ameliorated. A striking example of this is afl'orded in the, otherwise excellent, work of Dr. Chalmers on Political Economy. But when it is shown, as it has been by Mr. Sadler, that population moves with a constantly slackening pace as it becomes more dense, and as society becomes more Opulent, so that it must eventually come to a stop of itself; and when again it is shown, as it will be, that the powers of industry are also progressive, advancing at a rate of constantly accelerated velocity, so that, in the natural progress of things, they proceed with a rapidity which not merely keeps pace with, but outruns, the ordinary march of population, and consequently that the tendency of population is not to exceed, but to lag behind the means of its subsistence; in such case, it must be obvious, that the whole subject, when viewed in this Opposite light, must present a totally different aspect -an aspect at once as interesting and consolatory, as it is useful in its practical bearing on the conduct of life, and the welfare of society. In the questions discussed in this treatise, it has been endeavoured to separate them as much as possible from the abstract and perplexing ideas connected with the terms wealth, value, and price, - qualities which are as liable to mislead, as they are fluctuating in their nature; and to exhibit the subject rather as an inquiry into the means of facilitating national industry in the attainment of the ends for which labour 1s undertaken, without regard to the market value of the objects acquired, and without caring whether or not they come within any given and acknowledged definition of the term wealth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.