War-Time Financial Problems by Hartley Withers
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in British Industry?--The Supremacy of London and National Trade--No
need to fear German Capital--We shall need all we can get--Foreign Shares in British Companies--Can and should the Disclosure of Foreign Ownership be forced?--The Difficulties of the Problem--Aliens and British Shipping--The Position of "Key" Industries--Freedom to Import and Export Capital our Best Policy XIV NATIONAL GUILDS The Present Economic Structure--Its Weaknesses and Injustices--Were things ever better?--The Aim of State Socialism--A Rival Theory--The New Movement of Guild Socialism--Its Doctrines and Assumptions--Payment "as Human Beings"--The "Degradation" of earning Wages--Production irrespective of Demand--Is that the Real Meaning of Freedom?--The Old Evils under a New Name--A Conceivably Practical Scheme for some other World XV POST-WAR FINANCE Taxation after the War--Mr. Hoare's Scheme described and analysed--The Position of the Rentier--Estimates of the Post-War Debt--The Compulsory Loan Proposal--What Advantages has it over a Levy on Capital?--The Argument from Social Justice--Questions still to be answered--The Choice between a Levy and Stiff Taxation--Are we still a Creditor Nation?--Our Debt not a Hopeless Problem--Suggestions for solving it XVI THE CURRENCY REPORT Currency Policy during the War--Its Disastrous Medievalism--The Report of the Cunliffe Committee--A Blast of Common Sense--The Condemnation of |
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