PART VI.: SOME APPLICATIONS OF ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES.

It has seemed best to reserve to this portion of our work the discussion of some topics which involve the application of economic principles to questions of law or governmental policy, into which considerations of political equity or political expediency will intrude themselves so that they can hardly be shut out; and also to place here some matters of economic detail which might have unduly interrupted the course of our argument, had they been dealt with at the points with which they are logically connected.

Throughout this part, therefore, I may be found to adduce considerations not strictly economic, with a freedom I have not allowed myself heretofore.

The topics to be treated under this title are:

• 1.Usury Laws.
• 2.Industrial Co-operation.
• 3.Political Money.
• 4.Pauperism.
• 5.The Doctrine of the Wage-Fund.
• 6.The Multiple or Tabular Standard.
• 7.Trade Unions and Strikes.
• 8.The Knights of Labor.
• 9.Attacks on the Doctrine of Rent.
• 10.Nationalization of the Land.
• 11.The Banking Functions.
• 12.The National Banking System of the United States.
• 13.Foreign Exchanges.
• 14.Bi-Metallism. Edition: current; Page: [330]
• 15.The Revenue of the State.
• 16.Taxation.
• 17.“Protection” vs. Freedom of Production.
• 18.Socialism.