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...HE SYNDICALIST REVOLT............................................................................................................ 43 PART II PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE ................................................................................................................... 60 CHAPTER IV WORK AND PAY .......................................................................

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...Contents PREFACE........................................................................................................4 ESSAY I: Of the Laws of Interchange between Nations; and the Distribution of the Gains of Commerce among the Countries of the Commercial World ..............................................................................................

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...ESSAYS ON SOME UNSETTLED QUESTIONS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY by JOHN STUART MILL 1844 1844 1844 1844 1844 A PENN ST... ...ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Penn- sylv... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...he pre- cious metals out of France into England. The English con- sumer of French wine would not merely save the amount of the duty which that wine no... ...ing it would be increased by the augmentation of his own money income. The French consumer of English cottons, on the contrary, would not long continu... ...hey were told that the free admission of our cottons and hardware into the French market, would en- danger their branch of manufacture: yet such might... ...lth, and then ask himself what are the prob- abilities that in the longest revolution of ages two nations will be found, which agree, and can be shown... ...composition of his comprehensive work the Principles of Political Economy (1848). To return to the Electronic Classics Series, go to http://www.hn.psu...