. Prices and price control in Great Britain and the United States during the World War. r price fixing, the government shouldhave dealt with the particular evil which had revealed evil was not the rise In prices, but the suspicion ofprofiteering. ... If the government believed that thecry against profiteering was justified, they ought to havedealt with it specifically ... by limiting the profits, bytaxing them.* ^ The Statist, November 3, 1917, p. 731. * The Interstate Grocer, August 25, 1917, p. I. The Economist, February 16, 1918, p. 256. * The Spectator, January 12, 1918, p. 32.
. Prices and price control in Great Britain and the United States during the World War. r price fixing, the government shouldhave dealt with the particular evil which had revealed evil was not the rise In prices, but the suspicion ofprofiteering. ... If the government believed that thecry against profiteering was justified, they ought to havedealt with it specifically ... by limiting the profits, bytaxing them.* ^ The Statist, November 3, 1917, p. 731. * The Interstate Grocer, August 25, 1917, p. I. The Economist, February 16, 1918, p. 256. * The Spectator, January 12, 1918, p. 32. 12 APPENDIX TO PART I THE COURSE OF WHOLESALE PRICES(Price levels during 1890-1899= 100) 23 0 ZIO ZOO 190 130 17° l&O 150 lAO 130 1914 1915 1916 rAMAHA • UNITED KINGDOM UNITED STATES 1t1 $ 1 1 J / / Ir / /-^^ // // y 1 / i f / / / / ^/ 1 i / /^ s , / ^crr^^r^A^ — .^ Z30ZZOZIOZOO 190 180 170 IbO15014-0130 Labour Gazette (Canadian), September, 1917, P- 744. 171 172 PRICES AND PRICE CONTROL DURING THE WAR THE RISE IN THE RETAIL PRICES OF FOODSi(Prices in July, 1914= loo).
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