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Rural Wealth and Welfare: Economic Principles Illustrated and Applied in Farm Life
George Thompson Fairchild
Where does a farm's wealth actually come from, and where does it go? Fairchild builds a plain economics from the ground of rural life: the aims of industry, the forces that produce wealth, labor, and capital, all illustrated on the farm. A clear-headed primer in economic thinking for country people. Understand your work as well as you do it.
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37 chapters
- 1Contents
- 2Dedication
- 3Preface.
- 4Introduction. General Welfare.
- 5Part I. Productive Industries: Analysis of Aims, Forces, Means and Methods.
- 6Chapter I. Aims Of Industry.
- 7Chapter II. Forces In Production Of Wealth.
- 8Chapter III. Labor Defined And Classified.
- 9Chapter IV. Capital Defined And Classified.
- 10Chapter V. Personal Attainments.
- 11Chapter VI. Combination Of Forces For Individual Efficiency.
- 12Chapter VII. Methods Of Association.
- 13Chapter VIII. Exchange: Advantages, Limitations And Tendencies.
- 14Chapter IX. Value The Basis Of Exchange.
- 15Chapter X. Exchange—Its Machinery.
- 16Chapter XI. Banks And Banking.
- 17Chapter XII. Deferred Settlement And Credit Expansion.
- 18Chapter XIII. Technical Division Of Labor.
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