Economic and Fiscal Facts and Fallacies

Download or read book Economic and Fiscal Facts and Fallacies written by Guilford L. Molesworth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Economic and Fiscal Facts and Fallacies The primary object in publishing this work is to present, in a more connected form, the views which I have advanced c5from time to time in various books, pamphlets, speeches, and letters to the public journals, on economic and fiscal questions, during a period extending over more than a quarter of a century. Another object is to expose the manner in which the followers of the 'Manchester School' of economics have misused and misapplied the valuable truths of political 5 economy; to protest against the elevation of their fiscal tenets to a species of religion, the doctrines of which are not even to be questioned; and to dispute their extravagant claims to infallibihty, indicated by such expressions as Free Trade, the International Law of the Almighty (Cobden); The economic conditions under= which we live and move and have our being (Asquith); or I The eternal truths of the Economic Law (Birrell). Those who question these sacred doctrines are treated with scant courtesy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.