The Economics of Everyday Life Volume 1; A First Book of Economic Study book

The Economics of Everyday Life Volume 1; A First Book of Economic Study book

The Economics of Everyday Life Volume 1; A First Book of Economic Study.cThomas Henry Penson

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Author: Thomas Henry Penson
Page Count: 52 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: Englishhttps://d1w7fb2mkkr3kw.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/large/9781/1306/9781130605617.jpg
ISBN: 9781232169277
File size: 38 Mb
File Name: The.Economics.of.Everyday.Life.Volume.1;.A.First.Book.of.Economic.Study.pdf
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...as the encouragement of those industries (a) which tend to promote a strong and healthy population (e.g. agriculture), or (b) which work up raw material (e.g. timber or iron-ore) produced in the country itself. In this chapter, however, we are concerned not so much with economic policy as with economic effort and the forms it has taken at different periods, so that economic policy will only be brought in when it exerts some special influence on industrial life. The gradual development of the selfsufficient unit from the household to the nation will be traced in outline, and the causes and nature of the successive changes will be briefly explained. The Household. The first English settlers in this country, who began coming over from the North of Germany about the middle of the 5th century, followed in their new home, so far as we know, the habits of life to which they were accustomed. They seem to have had a great aversion to towns. They were agriculturists living in small village groups. Their wants were few and these could be satisfied no doubt by their own direct effort. At this early date each household was for the most part self-supporting; it grew its own food and for shelter, furniture, implements, clothes or ornaments it depended on the industry and skill of its own members. A type of industrial society not very unlike this, may still be found in some parts of Europe, though it is rapidly disappearing. In Sweden, for example, the Dalecarlian peasant is practically self-supporting. He is a peasant proprietor owning some few acres of agricultural land in the valley, enough pasture for his cattle on the hill-side or Saeter, and certain timber rights in the neighbouring forest. In the summer the women work on the farm, the girls and boys look after the c...

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