 | Economics - 1900 - 608 pages
...extending over the past twenty years. As the outcome of these studies, the preface states that " It is the purpose of this work to show that the distribution...production the amount of wealth which that agent creates." THE specimen number of The Russian Journal of Financial Statistics, edited by Charles Goodlet, and... | |
 | Social sciences - 1901 - 502 pages
...which, if it were proved, would make "every right-minded man a socialist."3 In his preface he says: "It is the purpose of this work to show that the distribution...production the amount of wealth which that agent creates." The successful accomplishment of this task would leave the author without a peer as an economist. 1... | |
 | John Atkinson Hobson - Business & Economics - 1909 - 360 pages
...' marginalists ' is that a natural law, the operations of which they profess to describe, tends to give to every agent of production the amount of wealth which that agent produces. ' So far as it is not obstructed, it assigns to every one what he has specifically produced.'... | |
 | Carl Copping Plehn - Finance - 1911 - 530 pages
...of Wealth By JOHN BATES CLARK Professor of Political Economy in Columbia University This work shows that the distribution of the income of society is...of production the amount of wealth which that agent produces. However wages may be adjusted by bargains between individual men, the rates of pay that result... | |
 | William Forbes Gray - Best books - 1912 - 438 pages
...WAOES, INTEREST AND PROFITS. 9 in. 473 pp. 1899. Macmillan. 12/6 net. An able work which aims at showing that the distribution of the Income of society is...agent of production the amount of wealth which that aneut creates. •M DAVIDSON, JOHN. THE BARGAIN THEORY OF WAGES. 326 pp. 1898. Putnam. 6/-. " A critical... | |
 | William Forbes Gray - Best books - 1912 - 432 pages
...INTEREST, AND PROFITS. 9 in. 473 pp. 1899. Macmillan. 12/6 net. An able work which alms at showing that the distribution of the income of society is...law, if It worked without friction, would give to even- agent of production the amount of wealth which that agent creates. 569 DAVIDSON, JOHN. THE BARGAIN... | |
 | John Kells Ingram - Economics - 1915 - 384 pages
...required which has not yet appeared. " It is the purpose of this work," says the author in the preface, " to show that the distribution of the income of society...of production the amount of wealth which that agent created." In the process of reasoning by which he attempts to demonstrate the existence of this law,... | |
 | John Augustine Ryan - Distribution (Economic theory) - 1916 - 490 pages
...himself in the opening sentence of the preface to his " Distribution of Wealth," its main tenet is, " that the distribution of the income of society is...production the amount of wealth which that agent creates." In a regime of perfect competition, therefore, the* labourer would get, not the whole product of industry,... | |
 | Maurice Parmelee - Poverty - 1916 - 510 pages
...of the popula1 Some thinkers on this subject contend that this is so. For example, JB Clark asserts "that the distribution of the income of society is...production the amount of wealth which that agent creates." (The Distribution of Wealth, New York, 1000, pv) Under such conditions the highest actual per capita... | |
 | Oswald Fred Boucke - Economics - 1921 - 464 pages
...Smith or Mill. The first sentence of the Preface in Clark's "Distribution of Wealth" announced: "It is the purpose of this work to show that the distribution...production the amount of wealth which that agent creates." And in Wicksteed's "Common Sense of Political Economy," 1910, we read: "The central thesis of this... | |
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IT is the purpose of this work to show that the distribution of the income of society is controlled by a natural law, and that this law, if it worked without friction, would give to every agent of production the amount of wealth which that agent creates. 
