Category: Economics

The basic facts of economics

The purpose of this common-sense explanation of Economic phenomena is to disclose and emphasize those comprehensive and familiar primary facts which embody the myriads of secondary facts that are involved in Economic science. To avoid confusing those complicated details is to...

Chapters

1. Part 1

The purpose of this common-sense explanation of Economic phenomena is to disclose and emphasize those comprehensive and familiar primary facts which embody the myriads of second...

2. Part 2

This comment does not mean that Economic details are to be ignored except for classification, even by non-specialists. Far from that. It means that they are to be thoughtfully c...

3. Part 3

Trade phenomena, to which this Lesson has been devoted, though they lead down to the Basic Facts, the foundation facts, of Economics, do not themselves, either wholly or in any...

4. Part 4

Finished products may be catalogued in general terms as food, clothing, dwellings, luxuries and other Artificial Objects which have come into the possession of ultimate consumer...

5. Part 5

Evidently the science of Economics, which comprehends the interests of all and not merely those of a private business, cannot classify slaves as Wealth. Since they are not and c...

6. Part 6

In adjustments of Trade outside the pocketmoney class of transactions, Money pieces do not serve to the extent of five per cent. Nearly all those adjustments are effected by mea...

7. Part 7

Related to the problems thus suggested is the policy commonly and widely known as “the Single Tax,” the fiscal method proposed and widely popularized by Henry George for initiat...

8. Part 8

Thus the factor in Production technically termed Land is represented in Distribution by the Wealth element technically termed Rent; whereas the factor in Production technically...