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Thoughts on the mechanism of societies

marquis de Charles Casaux · Economics · 47 章

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THOUGHTS ON THE MECHANISM OF SOCIETIES.PREFACE BY THE EDITOR.ERRATA.CONTENTS.THOUGHTS ON THE MECHANISM of SOCIETIES.A general View of the present State of Great Britain.A more particular View of the same Subject.Clear Savings of the Manufactories, Trade, and other Branches of Industry.Thoughts on Imposts and Reimbursements.—The Accumulation of public Treasure considered as the Means of preventing Taxation.On the grievous, but necessary part of the Impost.Of that part of the Impost, which is more useful than grievous.Objections of another kind against paying off the National Debt.First Hypothesis.Reflections on the two foregoing Articles.A Thought substituted to that of a Reimbursement.General Balance of Trade in England.Reflexions on some private Balances of England, both of the favourable and disadvantageous Kind.State of the Balance between England and Holland.Balance of France with England.Further Reasons why all Ideas of a favourable Balance in Money, different from that which I have supposed, should be rejected.Equilibrium necessary in all things.—On the surest means of establishing it.Ninth Hypothesis.On the Influence of the National Prices on the Sales in Foreign Markets.A necessary Principle of Trade, considered both as direct, and in Competition.Reflexions on a Letter from Philadelphia, inserted in the English News-papers.Under what Point of View Premiums and other Encouragements of Exportation may be considered.On the Influence of the various Kinds of Taxation upon National Prices.On the Object of all Ministers of Finance in laying Taxes.Eleventh Hypothesis.Thirteenth Hypothesis.Reflexions on the foregoing System.Effects of an Impost exclusively laid on the Articles of Consumption peculiar to the rich, or in other words, on Luxury.Effects of a merciless Tax upon all the Articles of the most general Consumption.Effects of Compound Taxation.Some Doubts on the supposed Impossibility of laying all Taxes on Consumption.Recapitulation of the foregoing Thoughts on Taxes and their Effects.Fourteenth Hypothesis.On a Cause little suspected of high Prices.The happy Issue of a desperate Combat between Monopoly and some private Interests.Reflexions on a very strange Revolution in France.The pretended Balance of France in point of Trade.Prohibitory Laws against, or excessive Duties imposed upon Importation.The nominal Value of the generality of Exports, considered in different Periods, and with respect to its Effect on foreign Correspondence.Was it worth being so rich, to consume so little?Thoughts on the Colonies.FINIS.THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE