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Rural Wealth and Welfare: Economic Principles Illustrated and Applied in Farm Life

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Homesteading

Rural Wealth and Welfare: Economic Principles Illustrated and Applied in Farm Life

George Thompson Fairchild

361 pages~7 hr 11 min read37 chapters$4.99
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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

  1. 1Contents
  2. 2Dedication
  3. 3Preface.
  4. 4Introduction. General Welfare.
  5. 5Part I. Productive Industries: Analysis of Aims, Forces, Means and Methods.
  6. 6Chapter I. Aims Of Industry.
  7. 7Chapter II. Forces In Production Of Wealth.
  8. 8Chapter III. Labor Defined And Classified.
  9. 9Chapter IV. Capital Defined And Classified.
  10. 10Chapter V. Personal Attainments.
  11. 11Chapter VI. Combination Of Forces For Individual Efficiency.
  12. 12Chapter VII. Methods Of Association.
  13. 13Chapter VIII. Exchange: Advantages, Limitations And Tendencies.
  14. 14Chapter IX. Value The Basis Of Exchange.
  15. 15Chapter X. Exchange—Its Machinery.
  16. 16Chapter XI. Banks And Banking.
  17. 17Chapter XII. Deferred Settlement And Credit Expansion.
  18. 18Chapter XIII. Technical Division Of Labor.

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