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Libertarians and compulsorians, 553
Lumbering, 203
Luxuries, 475

Luxurious consumption, effect on
labor, 492

McCulloch, J. R., 477

Machinery, advantages of, 122; farm,
135; and production, 223

Malthus, 395

Man power, conservation of, 460;

sources of, 521

Manufacturing establishments, 221
Margin of cultivation, 411
Marginal productivity and average
productivity, 371

Market value, criticisms on, 267
Marketing, essentials of, 318; coöper-
ative, 320

Marriage, age of, 117

Marshall, Alfred, 223, 351, note, 474
Mechanical power, 239
Merchandising, 249

Middleman as a timesaver, 246

Mill, John Stuart, 258, 477

Mineral lands, 98

Miser and spendthrift, 463
Military defense, 346
Mining, 206

Money, one form of social capital,

157; a labor-saving invention, 292;
substitutes for, 293; qualities in
material of, 295; kinds of, in United
States, 298; speeding up circula-
tion, 515; amount necessary in war
time, 516
Monopoly, 290

Morality, teaching of, 65; reasons for,
557, 558

National banking system, 311
Necessaries, 472
Niggardliness of nature, 281
Noncompeting groups, 398

Occupation, influence of, 214

Opportunity cost, 285

Ox, displacement of, 133; historical
importance of, 135

Partnership, 168
Personal utility, 245

Peschel, 81, 82

Physiocrats, 563

Population, geographical redistribu-
tion of, 188

Population, law of, 395

Poverty, how curable, 583

Power, animal, 132; kinds of, 141
Precious metals, 296

Prices, control of, 176

Producers' and consumers' goods,
260, 261

Production, definition of, 87; length-
ening process of, 165; combination
of factors of, 165

Productive, meaning of, 356
Productive life, promotion of, 52

Productivity, great law of, 212
Profits, definition of, 441
Protective tariff, 348

Railway, monopolistic character of

a, 242

Railways, 240; public or private, 241–
243; short- and long-distance haul-
ing, 242
Religion, 81

Rent, definition of, 409; reason for,
409; economists' theory of, 564
Residual share, 447

Revenue system, marks of a good, 507
Revenues, classification of, 503
Ricardo, 564

Risk, irksomeness of, 443
Risk-taking, necessity of, 443
Robinson, E. V., 188, note, 455
Ross, E. A., 54, 512

Rothamsted experiments, 373

Savings banks, 305

Scarcity, causes of, 281; of labor,

causes of, 391

Scientific management, 186
Self-centered appreciation, 29
Self-interest, definition of, 22; and

public uses, 35

Sexes, interdependence of, 218
Shaw, Albert, 230, note

Single tax, 563, 569-571

Skill, cost of acquiring, 390
Small industries, decay of, 229
Smith, Adam, 61, 119, 120, 130, 256,

474, 511, 564
Smith, J. Russell, 147
Sobriety, 108

Social income, distribution of, 10;
utilization of, II

Socialism, and communism, 541; and
populism, 543; and liberalism, 543,
545

Society, the coöperative, 177

Spartan communism, 534

Spencer, Herbert, 556

Sprague, O. M. W., 307, note

Standard of living, 344, 393, 461, 495 ;
and birth rate, 580
Standard money, 300
Standardization, 252; and economy, 55
Steam engine, 140

Struggle for existence, 37

Strike, the, 406

Sumptuary laws, 486

Taborites, 534

Talent, waste of, 70

Tariff, paid by consumer, 348; paid

by foreign producer, 349; when
prohibitive, 350

Taussig, F. W., 124, note
Tax, definition of, 504

Taxation, canons of, 511; progressive,
511; repressive, 512

Taxes, inheritance, 509

Thrift, 105; and the laborer, 582
Tillage, 210

Token currency, 301

Tools, compared with machinery, 121;
compared with consumers' goods,
160; as consumers' goods, 467; as
inducement to work, 468

Trade union, 403

Transportation, 233; types in use,
237

Trust, the, 175

Unemployed, the, 66

United States, geographical advan-
tages of, 82

Unskilled labor, scarcity of, 392
Utopias, 532

Valuation and exchange, 264
Value, and esteem, 267; and price,
268; economic, 269; reasons for,
272, 273; determined by scarcity,
274; relation of utility to, 275;
of a man, 458

Variable proportions, law of, 367
Veblen, Thorstein, 76

Vice, as waste of energy, 72; control
of, 487; as a fool-killer, 490
Voluntary agreement, 47

Wages, causes of difference in, 388;
summary of discussion of, 399
Waiting, irksomeness of, 429
Walpole, 223

War, financing a, 514

Wealth, two meanings of, 13; and
well-being, 13; ten characteristics
of, 21; right of men to accumulate,
69; ways of acquiring, 192, 193;
economical ways of getting, 194
Well-being, social, 8

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