Word: quare
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ever increasing tendency today is towards government control of quasi-public works.- (a) This also applies to municipalities as shown in the present condition of affairs: Professor Hadley in Pol. Sci. Quar., III. 573 (Dec. 1888); Municipal monopolies and their Management...
Best general references: Political Science Quar., III. 576-595 (Dec., 1888); Engin. Mag., V. 725; A. R. Conkling, City Govt. in the U. S.; Nation, LVIII, 285 (Apr. 19, 1894); LVI, 449 (June 22, 1893); LX, 102 (Feb. 7, 1895); A. R. Foote, Municipal Ownership of Quasi-Public Works; John Stuart Mill, Political Economy, Book V, ch. 11, 1-6; Bastable, Public Finance, 184 ff; Bryce, American Commonwealth, II, 367-385 (on Philadelphia Gas Ring); A. C. Burrage, Municipal Lighting; Hadley, Railroad Transportation...
...Burdett before Mass. Legislature, p. 17.- (b) It tends to paternalism and socialism: Wm. E. Russell, quoted, Ibid, p. 18.- (c) Discourages invention and improved methods in public works.- (1) Kills competition: Speech of A. C. Burrage, p. 18.- (2) Removes the incentive to profit making: Pol. Sci. Quar. Dec. '88, p. 590.- (3) Leads to conservatism.- (d) Public labor less efficent than private: Chairman of Boston Park Commission, in speech of Burrage, p. 11.- (e) Tends unduly to raise wages.- (1) The employer is the best judge of reasonable wages.- (2) Government control makes the laborer the judge: Nation...
...tariff), Cairnes, Leading Principles, ch. 4; Wilson in N. A. R., vol. 159, pp. 385-394 (Oct. '94), Forum, XVI, 544-549 (Feb. '94) and Boston Herald, Aug. 30, '94; Russell in N. A. R., vol. 157, pp. 641-653 (Nov. '93); Taussig in Pol. Sci. Quar., IX, 585-610 (Dec. '94) and In. Jr. Cec., VIII, 1-40 (Oct. '93); Nation, LI, 413; N. A. R., vol. 159, pp. 746-754 (Dec. '94); Pol, Sci. Quar...
...Fluctuating rates cause fluctuating volume of traffic.- (i) Fluctuating volume of traffic incurs greater operating expenses than a uniform volume.- (ii) Uniform traffic causes capital to be constantly employed; no idleness or loss by interest.- (b) Rate wars following prohibition of pooling caused enormous decline of railroad property: Quar. Jour. Econ. Jan. '89, p. 178.- (c) Railroads themselves favor pooling...