Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "Municipal Ownership of Telephones in Great Britain," Mr. A. N. Holcombe. University...
Major Leonard Darwin, of London, delivered the last of his lectures on "Municipal Ownership" last evening, on the subject of "Municipal Ownership without Direct Employment. Municipal Ownership and Socialistic Ideas...
...subject, Major Darwin said that if an industry tended to become a monopoly, public control was necessary. But this control may be asserted by granting short franchises to companies, to be held as long as the rights of the people are considered. Thus all the risks involved in ownership would be averted...
Several disadvantages occur from widely spread municipal ownership. Withdrawal of private capital would cause a great loss to the citizens. The actual working of governmental monopolies is slow and deadening, as the element of personal gain is entirely absent...
...LECTURES ON MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. IV. "Municipal Ownership without Direct Employment. Municipal Ownership and Socialistic Ideals." Major Leonard Darwin. Emerson Hall Lecture Room, (first floor...