Fields, factories and workshops

The development of agriculture--Over-population prejudice--Can the soil of Great Britain feed its inhabitants?--British agriculture--Compared with agriculture in France; in Belg...

Readers who have had the patience to follow the facts accumulated in this book, especially those who have given them a thoughtful attention, will probably feel convinced of the...

Industry and agriculture--The small industries--Different types--_Petty trades in Great Britain_: Sheffield, Leeds, Lake District, Birmingham--Statistical data--_Petty trades in...

One of the most interesting features of the present evolution of agriculture is the extension lately taken by intensive market-gardening of the same sort as has been described i...

Divorce between science and handicraft--Technical education--Complete education--The Moscow system: applied at Chicago, Boston, Aberdeen--Concrete teaching--Present waste of tim...

The various industries which still have retained in Germany the characters of petty and domestic trades have been the subject of many exhaustive explorations, especially by A. M...

Who does not remember the remarkable chapter by which Adam Smith opens his inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations? Even those of our contemporary economists...

Few books have exercised so pernicious an influence upon the general development of economic thought as Malthus’s _Essay on the Principle of Population_ exercised for three cons...

The flow of industrial growths spreads, however, not only east; it moves also south-east and south. Austria and Hungary are rapidly gaining ground in the race for industrial imp...

The development of agriculture--The over-population prejudice --Can the soil of Great Britain feed its inhabitants?--British agriculture--Compared with agriculture in France; in...

Divorce between science and handicraft--Technical education --Complete education--The Moscow system; applied at Chicago, Boston, Aberdeen--Concrete teaching--Present waste of ti...

Industry and agriculture--The small industries--Different types--_Petty trades in Great Britain_: Sheffield, Leeds, Lake District, Birmingham--Statistical data--_Petty trades in...