Problems of poverty : selections from the economic and social writings of Thomas Chalmers . PROBLEMS OFPOVERTY SELECTIONS FROM THE ECONOMICAND SOCIAL WRITINGS OF THOMAS CHALMERS ARRANGED BY HENRY HUNTER EX-hRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY OF POOR LAWOFFICIALS OF SCOTLAND t^/C c A%^- ) THOMAS NELSON & SONS LONDON, EDINBURGH, DUBLINAND NEW YORK Digitized by tine Internet Arcliive in 2011 witli funding from University of Nortli Carolina at Chapel Hill CONTENTS. PAGE Introduction ..... 9 SECTION I. POLITICAL ECONOMY. The Aim of Political Economy . 2


Problems of poverty : selections from the economic and social writings of Thomas Chalmers . PROBLEMS OFPOVERTY SELECTIONS FROM THE ECONOMICAND SOCIAL WRITINGS OF THOMAS CHALMERS ARRANGED BY HENRY HUNTER EX-hRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY OF POOR LAWOFFICIALS OF SCOTLAND t^/C c A%^- ) THOMAS NELSON & SONS LONDON, EDINBURGH, DUBLINAND NEW YORK Digitized by tine Internet Arcliive in 2011 witli funding from University of Nortli Carolina at Chapel Hill CONTENTS. PAGE Introduction ..... 9 SECTION I. POLITICAL ECONOMY. The Aim of Political Economy . 27 On the Increase and Limit of Food 29 On the Increase and Limit of Em-ployment . . -52 On the Increase and Limit of Capital 82 Population and Capital . .92 Foreign Trade . . .101 CONTENTS. PAGE Productive and Unproductive Labour ii6 On the Rent of Land . .124 Effect of a Tax on the Net Rent OF Land . . -135 Emigration . . . -151 Repeal of Combination Laws . .156 On Home Colonization . ? 171 The Economic and Christian View OF Society . . .180 On the Chr


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