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Acland, John, 296

Act of Settlement, 82, 90, 92, 98–99, 109, 110, 142, 289–290

Africa, 6, 19, 54, 63; colonies, 221; conditions of natives, 172; effect of white man on native culture, 165–6; exploitation of, 166

Agrarian Society, 43

Agrarianism, 197

Agriculture, 47, 70

Aid-in-rent, 101

Aid-in-wages, 86, 92, 97–98, 106, 285

Algiers, 6, 13

Allotments, 292

Allowance system in industrial towns, 292 ff.

Aluminium industry, 149

Andaman Islanders, 278

Angell, Norman, 198

Angoulême, Due d’, 5

Anti-Combination Laws, 85, 126, 219, 271

Anti-Corn Law Bill, 144, 174

Antwerp, 66

Applegarth, Robert, 296

Apprenticeship, 90–91

Arnold, Thurman, 155

Ashley, Sir William James, 283, 297

Asia, 19

Atwood of Birmingham, 235

Australians (aborigines), 62

Austria, 5, 8, 13, 19, 24, 32, 154, 196, 197, 298; and currency, 26, 238; and Fascism, 246, 249; and labour, 251

Austro-Hungary, 183

Autarchist empires, 24

Babylonia, 54, 280

Baghdad Railway, 13; bibliography, 272–273

Balance of power, 3, 6 ff, 17, 30, 249; bibliography, 272; and Bismarck, 19; and disarmament, 22; and peace, 19; System, 8 ff., 23, 220, 269 ff.

Balkans, 19, 222

Baltic States, 24

Bank of England, 10, 27, 233

Bank of Exchange, 113

Banking: international, 10 ff.; national, 11, 13–14; in United States, 237. See also Central Banking.

Barnes-Becker-Becker, 272

Barter, 71. See also Exchange; Trade, Markets.

Basra, 13

Bauer, Otto, 26

Beer, Max, 287

Belasco, P.S., 297

Belgium, 5, 6, 8; and currency, 238

Bellers, John, 110 ff., 115

Belsham, Will, 296

Benedict, Ruth, 278

Bentham, Jeremy, 88, 111 ff., 122, 124 ff., 145–146, 177, 189, 233, 285, 286, 296

Bentham, Sir Samuel, 111

Bergdama (tribesmen), 53

Berkshire magistrates, 82, 85, 88

Berlin, 24, 181

Berlin, Congress of. See Congress of Berlin.

Birmingham, 154

Bismarck-Schönhausen, Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von, 19, 26, 183, 222; and Austria, 8; and the Concert of Europe, 8; and Protectionism, 213

Blackmore, J. S., 297

Blake, William, 102

Blanc, Louis, 111, 113

Bleichroeders, 276

Bolshevism, 197, 199, 251, 254–255

Borkenau, Franz, 191

Bourbons, 271

Bourse of Paris. See Paris, Bourse.

Brinkmann, C., 172, 189

Bristol Corporation for the Poor, 111

British Blue Book, 254

British Dominions, 270

Brüning, John, 237, 250

Budapest, 24, 181

Buecher, Carl, 279, 280, 285

Buell, R. L., 272

Bulgaria, 6, 24, 24; currency, 27; Fascism, 245, 249

Bullion report, 299

Burgesses, 67, 68

Burke, Edmund, 88, 97, 121 ff., 133, 232, 235, 270, 285, 297

Cadiz, Spain, 5

Calvin, John, 116

Canada, 221

Cannan, E., 129

Canning, Charles John, 97, 222, 269, 274

Capital, 16, 25, 38, 69, 137

Capitalism, 16, 29, 84, 102, 166, 168, 175, 221, 231, 233, 245, 251; in England, 188; in France, 188

Carlyle, Thomas, 102

Carr, E. H., 213, 272

Cartels, 7, 213

Cary, John, 111

Central banking, 201 ff., 219

Central Europe, 24, 192, 196, 224

Centralized State, 69

Chaddar, 167

Chaga, 65

Chamberlain, Joseph, 154

Chamberlain, Neville, 254

Change, 35, 39, 158 ff., 245 ff.; to one party system, 252

Charles I, King, 233

Charles II, King, 233

Chartism, 234

Chartist Movement, 180 ff., 233

Child labour, 121, 164, 179–180, 303

Chimney Sweepers’ Act, 152

China, 6, 54, 280

Chrestomathic Day School, 126

Christian Socialists, 249

Christianity, 133, 177, 180, 268

Churchill, Winston, 26

City of London, 14, 27, 221, 253, 274

City-states, 6

Civilization, 3, 4, 21, 31, 245, 257 ff., 265

Clapham, J. H., 43, 97, 102, 272, 287, 297

Class interest, 158 ff., 259

Classes, 105–106, 120, 138–139, 158– 159, 182. See also Middle class.

Clergy, 194–195

Clive, Lord (Robert), 222

Cloth trade, 68

Cobbett, William, 234

Cobden, Richard, 192

Code Napoléon, 189

Cole, G. D. H., 176, 226

Collectivism, 151, 155, 161, 169–170, 283, 287

“Collectivist Conspiracy,” 156, 163, 213, 223

Collectivization of farms, 255

Colleges of industry, 110 ff.

Collier, John, 168, 302

Colonial policy, 224

Colonies, 221–225

Coloured races, 300 ff.

Comintern. See Congress of the Comintern.

Commerce between belligerents, 16–17

Commercial revolution, 29, 69

Commercial society, 43, 120

Commercialization of the soil, 188

Commodity fiction, 75, 138, 204

Commodity money. See Money, commodity.

Commodity prices, 18, 190

Common Law, 73

Commonwealth, British, 41, 99

Communism. See Bolshevism.

Concert of Europe, 8–10, 17 ff., bibliography, 273

Condorcet, Marie Jean, Marquis de, 118

Congress of Berlin, 8

Congress of the Comintern, 251

Conscience, freedom of, 261

Constitution, 233–234

Constitutionalism, 14, 233

Consumers’ Co-operatives, 177

Contagious Diseases Act, 152

Cooke, Edward, 118

Coolidge, Calvin, 26

Cooper, Alfred Duff, 254

Copyhold Acts, 189

Corn Laws, 198

Corn markets and prices, 289, 291

Correspondence Societies, 127

Corti, Egon Cæsar, 275

Cotton industry, 36, 39, 77, 97, 121, 142, 145

Counter-revolutions, 248

Countryside, against town, 294–295; depopulation and overpopulation, 295–296

Cowe, James, 296

Cowell, 291

Credit, 23, 199, 203, 240, 274

Crimean War, 5, 17

Crossman, R. H. S., 272

Crumple, Samuel, 296

Cunningham, William, 77, 212, 272, 284, 287, 293

Currency, 18, 24, 25, 143, 203, 206, 211, 216, 219, 223, 228, 235, 239– 240; depreciation, 27; in Europe, 199; in Great Britain, 236, 242; international, 273; restoration, 23; stabilization, 148; stabilization table, 275; United States, 242. See also Money.

Customs tariffs, 161, 213, 223, 226

Czech gold reserves, 254

Danson, J. T., 295

Dardanelles, 16

Darwin, Charles, 88, 118

Davies, David, 96

Dawes Plan, 224, 252

Death, 267

Debt Commission, 15

Debtor governments, 14

Decree of Muharrem, 15

Deflation, 203, 204, 241

Defoe, Daniel, 113 ff., 296

De Greef’s Law, 270

Delos, Isle of, 56

Democracy, 126, 234, 235

Denmark, 5, 9

Denudation of forests, 193

Depopulation, 37

Depressions: Great Depression, 1873–86, 223, 225–226; post-war, 1929 et seq., 20, 208

Detroit, 247

Dette Ottomane, 15

Dicey, A. V., 146, 153, 174, 189, 286, 287

Dickens, Charles, 102

Diderot, Denis, 88

Dieri (of Central Australia), 62

Diplomacy, 10

Disarmament, 22, 23

Disarmament Conference, 252

Disraeli, Benjamin, First Earl of Beaconsfield, 86, 174, 221

Doherty’s Trade Unions, 294

Drucker, Peter F., 180

Dust bowls, 193

Dyer, George, 296

Earle, Edward Mead, 276

East India Company, 168, 222

Eastern Europe, 24 ff.

Economic law, 38, 128

Economic liberalism, 31, 35, 121, 132, 138, 141 ff., 148, 155 ff., 195, 209, 225–226, 239, 276, 280

Economic Society. See Society.

Economic systems, 17–18, 42 ff., 57 ff.

Economic theory, 129–132

Economics and politics separated, 259

Eden, Sir Frederick Morton, 296

Egypt, 5, 20, 53; and currency, 280

Eldon, Lord, 105

Elizabeth, Queen, 222

Enclosure Act, 189

Enclosures, 36 ff., 73, 98

Enemy property, 17

Engels, Friedrich, 95, 102, 285

England, 5, 13, 19, 32 ff., 153; and the Balance of Power, 269–270; class government, 40; classes, 91; constitutionalism, 40; and Fascism, 25, 246, 249; immigration of craftsmen, 40; industrial revolution, 36 ff.; and the labour market, 81; Ministry of Health, 126; pauperism, 82 ff.; and the Poor Laws, 83; popular suffrage, 181; population, 97, 115; social legislation, 152–153; social conditions, 94–95, 102–103, 302–303; trade wars, 273

England, Bank of. See Bank of England.

Erosion, 193

Essential Works Order, 264

Estonia, 25, 249, 251

Eulenberg, F., 19

Europe, 188, 223, 231; and food, 199; and land, 192; governments after World War I (table), 274–275

Exchange, 28, 64, 71. See also Barter.

Exchanges, 202, 218, 238, 241

Expansion, 16

Exploitation, 168

Exports, 221, 227

Factory inspection, 153

Factory laws, 223

Factory system, 78 ff.

Fascism, 30, 32, 245 ff.; and Christianity, 268; and Roman Catholic Church, 249

Fay, S. B., 273

Federal Reserve Board, 27

Federal Reserve System, 211

Feis, H., 10, 273, 276

Fénelon, 269

Fernandez, Juan, 118, 119

Feudalism, 6, 17, 54, 90, 188, 192, 195, 280; abolished, 72–73; and famines, 167

Finance, 10 ff. See also Haute finance.

Fines and Recoveries Act, 189

Finland, 24, 197; and currency, 27; and Fascism, 245, 249, 251

Firth, R., 64, 277, 279, 281

“Flight of Capital,” 25

Food, 194, 199

Food prices, 94

Food supplies, 67

Fourier, François Marie Charles, 110, 113

Fox, Charles James, 270

France, 5, 7, 8, 19, 29, 153, 222, 237; and Bismarck, 19; and currency, 24; and Fascism, 246, 250; and Germany, 12, 226; and liberal government, 25; off the gold standard, 148; and the Ruhr, 251; and the trade wars, 273

Franco-Prussian War, 5

Francqui, Emile, 237

Frederick the Great, 17

Free trade, 18, 19, 23, 29, 38, 138, 141, 142, 144, 145, 169, 190, 198, 212, 223; India, 167; origin, 32. See also Trade.

Freedom, 258 ff.

Freedom of contract, 154, 191

Freezing of labour, 264

French Revolution, 7, 17, 88, 189, 228

Fuller, Major-General, 273

Funnell, William, 118

Gairdner, J., 38

General Allotment Act, 302

Geneva, 22, 23, 25, 27, 198, 221, 240–241, 253, 274

Gentz, Friedrich von, 7

George, Henry, 26

George, Stefan, 246

Germany, 6, 19, 24, 30, 32, 196, 213, 222, 252–253, 254; and Bolshevism, 199; cartels, 226; colonial policy, 226; and the Concert of Europe, 8; currency, 224, 238; customs tariff, 226; and disarmament, 250; and England, 13; factory legislation, 153; Fascism, 25, 32, 246, 250; and France, 12, 226; foreign investment policy, 12; a “have-not,” 221; industrial revolution, 183; inflation, 24; labour, 251; leaves the League of Nations, 253; National Socialist Revolution, 24; and the peace interest, 19; preparations for war, 252; prosperity, 252; social insurance, 226; workmen’s compensation, 154

Ghost dance, 168

Gibbins, H. de B., 38

Gilbert, Thomas, 296

Gilbert’s Act, 100, 111, 285

Gladstone, William Ewart, 222

Godwin, William, 88, 89, 127, 132, 296

Gold, 137, 203

Gold standard, 3, 26–27, 31, 80, 141, 144, 169, 201 ff., 211, 223, 226, 234, 236, 252, 254; collapse, 21; and currency, 224; failure, 28, 29; origin, 32; and the peace factor, 14; restoration, 149; table of countries off, 275; in the United States, 211

Goldenweiser, A., 165, 278, 301, 302

Government. See Popular government.

Grant, Irene, 11

Great Britain, 20, 30, 253, 254, 299; balance of power, 269; and Bismarck, 8; currency, 235–236, 242; expansion, 5, 6; and Fascism, 250; foreign policy, 222; general strike, 236; and laissez-faire, 149; National Government, 235; off the gold standard, 24, 27, 149, 208, 252; trade, 216, 238; unemployment benefits, 288

Great War. See World War I.

Greece, 16, 33, 236; currency, 27

Grey, Sir Edward (Lord Grey of Fallodon), 269

Guilds, 69, 73

Habeas Corpus Act, 146, 264

Haberler, G., 220

Habitation versus improvement, 35 ff.

Hadley, A. T., 234

Hales, John, 38

Halévy, Elie, 286

Halifax, Lord, 254

Hamburg, 66

Hamilton, Alexander, 222

Hammond, Barbara, 179, 287

Hammond, J. L., 179, 287

Hammurabi (in Babylonia), 53

Hampshire, 98, 296

Hanse, 66

Hapsburgs, 271

Hartley, David, 119

Harvey, J., 285

Hastings, Warren, 222

Haushofer, Karl, 272

Haute finance, 10, 14, 18–19, 23, 29; England, 11; France, 11; function, 10–11; organization, 12

Hawtrey, G. R., 59, 75, 193, 272

Hayes, C. A., 197

Hazlitt, W., 131

Heatley, D. P., 272

Heckscher, E. F., 38, 173, 283, 284

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 116

Heimwehr, 249

Helvetius, Claude Adrien, 119

Henderson, H. D., 72

Henry VIII, King, 233

Herriot, Edouard, 154

Hershey, A. S., 17, 272

Herskovits, M. J., 280, 282, 171

Heymann, H., 250

Hilferding, Rudolf, 26, 276

Hindenburg, Paul von Beneckendorff und von, 24, 246, 250

Hitler, Adolf, 199, 246, 247, 251, 254

Hobbes, Thomas, 119, 172

Hobson, J. A., 276

Hofmann, A., 272

Holland, 29, 271; and Fascism, 246, 249

Holmes, E., 285

Holy Alliance, 5 ff., 17

Hoover, Herbert, 25

Householding, 56

Houses of Industry, 287

Howlett, Rev. J., 288, 290, 296

Humanity. See Society.

Hume, David, 119, 192 ff., 270, 272

Hundred Years’ Peace, 3 ff., 198, 273–274; bibliography, 272

Hungary, 5, 13, 24, 249; and Bolshevism, 196; and currency, 27; and Fascism, 246, 249

Hungry Forties, 181, 234

Huskisson, William, 232

“Ideal system” (economic), 8

Immigration, 214

Imperialism, 16, 158, 192, 218, 221– 222, 214–215, 227

Import tariffs. See Customs tariffs.

Imports, 221

Improvement versus habitation, 36 ff.

Incas, 54, 280

India, 54, 167–168, 173; and currency, 280

Indian Reorganization Act, 302

Indians, American. See North American Indians.

Individual, rights of, in society, 245

Indo-China, 6

Industrial Revolution, 7, 8, 36, 39 ff., 81, 93, 124, 135, 169, 173; causes, 42–43; cultural effect, 164; defi- nition, 42–43; England, 31, 36 ff., 182; Europe, 182–183; origin, 32; social conditions, 41–42, 182

Industry, 16

Industry-houses, 112, 122, 126

Inflation, 24, 25, 27, 148, 235

Inheritance Act, 189

Innes, A. D., 38

International institutions, 3–4. See also Balance of Power; Gold standard.

International Labour Office, 27

International order and peace, 260–261

International system, 4–5, 16, 21 ff.; failure, 29, 252; monetary, 16

Internationalism, 10, 207

Intervention, international, 5

Interventionism, 38–39, 69–70, 155, 161, 207, 215–216, 217, 225, 231, 239

Investments, foreign, 11, 15

Ireland, 246

Italy, 5, 24, 32, 221, 245–246; Bolshevism, 199; currency, 26; Fascism, 245–246, 249, 250; industrial revolution, 183; preparations for war, 252

James, Isaac, 118, 296

Japan, 221, 252, 270; Fascism, 246

Jesus, 249

Judaism, 249

Johnson, Charles S., 303

Jones, Edward, 296

Jowett, Benjamin, 56

Jugoslavia, 245

Kaffirs, 165, 171, 302, 303

Kett’s rebellion, 37

Keynes, John Maynard, 195

Kingfish. See Long, Huey.

Kingsley, Charles, 102, 165

Kingsley, Mary H., 302

Klages, Ludwig, 246

Knight, Frank H., 250

Knowledge of constitutive facts, 264

Knowles, L. C. A., 184, 272

Kouwenhoven, John A., 11

Kpelle, 62

Kraal-land system, 171

Kula ring, 62

Kula trade, 51, 52

Kwakiutl (tribesmen), 53, 171

Labour, 41, 71 ff., 81 ff., 171 ff., 234; code of, 91; division of, 282; enforced, 91, 92, 99; independent, 104; nationalization, 73; nomadic, 172; obligations, 120

Labour exchange, 110, 113, 176

Labour legislation, English, 73

Labour market. See Markets, Labour.

Labour organization, 90, 288 ff.

Labour parties, 150, 236, 243

Laissez-faire, 122, 124, 138, 143, 145, 147, 154 ff., 286

Land, 36, 39, 71 ff., 81, 187 ff.; colonies, 188

Landflucht, 293

Langer, W. L., 273, 276

Lassalle, Ferdinand, 26, 111, 113

Lasswell, H. D., 272, 273

Latin America and Fascism, 246

Latvia, 25, 249, 251

Laud, William, Archbishop, 37

Lawrence, D. H., 246

Lawson, 110

League Council, 23

League of Nations, 27, 29; balance of power, 22, 249; collapse, 24; gold delegation of, 242

Leathes, Sir Stanley Mordaunt, 272, 276

Leigh, Robert D., 11

Lenin, Wladimir Ilyitch, 16, 24, 26

Lesser, Alexander, 301

Libel Act, 142

Liberal philosophy and Fascism, 265–266

Liberal State, 3, 29, 31, 195

Linton, Ralph, 278

Lippmann, Walter, 46, 148, 155, 272, 288

Lipson, Ephraim, 282

Lithuania, 25, 251

Lloyd George, David, 155

Locke, John, 111, 117, 129, 233

Loeb, E. M., 171, 281, 282

London, 181, 196, 202

Long, Huey, 249

Lorimer, Frank, 302

Lowie, Robert Harry, 277

Luddism, 85, 175

Lueger, Karl, 154

Luson, Hewling, 296

Luther, Martin, 116

Luxembourg, neutralization, 8

Lyons, 173

Lysis (Michel le Tellier), 276

Macaulay, Thomas Babbington (Lord Macaulay), 185, 233, 234

Machiavelli, Niccolo, 116

Machines, 77–78, 124–125

MacIver, Robert M., 10

Madagascar, 6

Mair, L. P., 171, 301

Majendie, 292

Malinowski, Bronislav, 50, 277

Malthus, Thomas Robert, 88, 89, 103, 109, 118, 121, 127–129, 131, 143, 231, 285, 299

Manchester, 142, 174

Mandeville, Doctor, 114

Mankind. See Society.

Mann, J., 291

Mantoux, P. L., 127, 287

Manufactures, 98

Market economy, 31 ff., 75 ff., 105, 136, 187 ff., 195, 223 ff., 231 ff., 303; ancient Greece, 56; definition, 42, 43–44, 45, 71; England, 31; successor of Speenhamland, 106

Market system, 40, 44, 78, 85, 129, 136–137, 139, 145, 155 ff., 162, 171 ff., 195, 226; collapse of, 243; self-regulating, 31–32

Markets, 29, 43, 45–46, 56 ff., 171 ff., 187 ff., 201 ff., 228, 257–258, 276– 277, 281–282; corn, 289; customs and ceremonies, 64; definition, 59; fairs, 63; free, 146; India, 167; labour, 73, 75, 81, 82, 84, 92, 122, 132, 141–144, 169 ff., 184–185, 190, 225, 233, 239, 300; land, 75, 169 ff., 187 ff., 225, 239; local, 61, 64– 65, 67; money, 18, 75, 169 ff., 239; national, 64, 68–69, 120; one big market, 75, 187; origin, 66–67; ports, 63; real estate, 187; self- regulating, 3, 40, 42 ff., 60, 71 ff., 87, 132, 137–138, 141, 144, 147 ff., 154 ff., 198, 209, 217, 225, 280; United States, 210; world, 79–80

Marshall, Dorothy, 297

Marshall, T. H., 299

Martineau, Harriet, 94, 102, 104–105, 233, 286, 297

Marx, Karl, 8, 26, 76, 88, 113, 131, 158, 174, 285

Massie, J., 297

Materialism, 31, 42

Mayer, J. P., 272

Mead, Margaret, 166, 301

Meeting of Sufferings, 111

Melanesians, 302

Mellonie, F. C., 297

Mendershausen, Horst, 11

Mercantilism, 38, 70, 73, 77, 90, 284

Meredith, H. O., 83

Metternich, Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von, 7

M’Farlane, John, 108, 296, 303

Micronesians, 279

Middle classes, 17, 25, 104–105, 139, 180, 182, 194, 195, 196; Austria, 197. See also Classes.

Mill, James, 166

Mill, John Stuart, 26, 88, 212

Millins, Mrs. S. G., 165

Mines Act, 152

Minstrels, 277

Mises, Ludwig von, 26, 46, 148, 185, 198, 204, 234, 235, 287

Mitchell, W. C., 286

Mond Plan, 299

Mond, Sir Alfred, 288

Money, 25–26, 56, 61, 71 ff., 81, 204, 205, 208, 211–212, 282–283; com- modity, 137, 202, 205; Egypt, 53– 54; free, 214–215; token, 202, 205, 208; United States, 235. See also Currency; Wealth.

Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat de, 70, 233

More, Hannah, 179, 196, 289

More, Thomas, 116

Morgan, John Pierpont, 29

Morgans, 29

Morocco, 13, 20

Mowat, R. B., 273

Muir, Ramsay, 273

Munich, 253

Münster, Treaty of, 7, 270

Mussolini, Benito, 26, 199, 246, 251

Nasmith, James, 297

National Charity Company, 112

Nationalism, 16, 207–208

National Socialist Revolution, 24

Nazism, 250, 253

Netherlands. See Holland.

Neutralization, 8

New Deal, 24, 211, 236, 237

New Lanark, 178–179

New Poor Law, 232, 233

Nicholls History of the Poor Laws, 290

Nonconformity in established society, 260

Norman, Montagu, 253, 254

North American Indians, 168, 301–302

Norway, 8

Oastler, Richard, 174

Ohlin, B., 189

Oil industry, 149

Okeden, 292

Old Age Pension Act, 287

Oncken, H., 273

Operative Builders’ Union, 177

Oppenheim, L., 272

Orange State, 221

Ortes, Giammaria, 108

Ottoman Empire, 5, 8

Outdoor relief, 100

Owen, Robert, 88, 89, 111, 113, 115, 125, 133 ff., 165, 176, 178 ff., 235, 268, 297, 302–303

Owenism, 175 ff.

Owenite movement, 175 ff., 294

Owenite Societies, 176

Pacific Islands, 221

Pacifism, 5, 11

Paine, Thomas, 97, 297

Palestine, 246

Palgrave, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, 298

Palmerston, Third Viscount, 269, 274

Panopticon, 126, 146

Pantlen, Herman, 284

Papen, Franz von, 247

Paris, 181

Paris, Bourse of, 13

Parish serfdom, 289

Parliamentary Reform Act, 105, 124, 174, 232

Paternalism, 82, 92

Pauperism, 82 ff., 108, 123, 128, 232, 296 ff.; bibliography, 296 ff.; first appearance in England, 109; rural, 93–94. See also Speenhamland; Poor Law.

Pawnee hand game, 168

Pax Britannica, 14

Peace, 7, 17, 18, 22, 23, 276; African, 301; “armed peace,” 14

“Peace interest,” 7 ff., 11, 14, 273–274

Peace Treaties. See Treaties and particular Peace Treaties.

Peasantry, 67, 182, 192, 197; and Fascism, 251

Peel, Robert, 143, 185, 232, 233

Pelican Inn, 82

Pengwe of West Africa, 62

Penrose, E. F., 190, 210

Persia, 20

Pew, Richard, 297

Pharmacopœia, 152

Phillips, W. A., 273

Physiocrats, 115, 141, 195

Piracy, 274

Pirenne, Henri, 63, 270, 272, 281, 283 ff.

Pitt, William, 112, 122, 143, 185, 285

Pitt, William Morton, 296

Pitt-Rivers, 301

Planning and freedom, 262 ff.

Plato, 119

Poland, 5, 24, 25

Polanyi, Karl, 7–10, 241, 245

Political economy, 116 ff.

Politics and economics separated, 259

Polynesians, 279

Poor Law, 73, 82 ff., 123, 143, 285, 300; bibliography, 296 ff.; New Poor Law, 146; and organization of labour, 284 ff.; and the parish, 91; rates, 102; versus revolution, 97

Poor Law Amendment, 84, 143; bill, 143

Poor Law Bill, 122

Poor Law Commissioners, 291, 292

Poor Law Reform, 88, 106, 112, 164; Act, 86, 87, 174, 181; Commissioners, 105

Poor rates. See Rates.

Popular government, 231

Population, 41, 130, 168, 301

Portugal, 29

Postan, M. M., 284

Postlethwayt, Malachy, 108

“Post-war Revolutions,” 23, 248

Poverty. See Pauperism.

Power, Eileen Edna, 284, 291, 292

Power finance versus Dollar diplomacy, 10, 14, 15

Power, function of, 266–267

Prague, 254

Prescriptions Acts, 189

Price, Dr. R., 127

Prices, 71, 120, 129, 201–202. See also Food prices.

Primitive man, 46, 47–48, 55–56

Pringle, 292

Productive organization, 136 ff., 201 ff.

Profits, 44; speculator’s, 260

“Proletarian,” 168

Protectionism, 9, 142, 150, 158 ff., 169, 185, 213, 214, 220, 226, 227, 283–284; Europe, 200; United States, 211. See also Customs tariffs.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph, 26, 111, 113

Prussia, 5, 154, 247; and Fascism, 246

Prussianism, 226

Public Libraries Act, 152

Public utilities, 16

Puritans, 113

P. W. A. (Public Works Administration), 288

Quakers, 110

Quesnay, François, 88, 119, 141, 222

Railways, 15, 16

Ratcliffe-Brown, 278

Rates, 101 ff., 127

Rauschning, H., 250

Raw material, 199

Real Property Act, 189

Reciprocity, 49 ff., 57 ff., 64, 277–278; centricity, 51, 57 ff., Kula trade, 51; symmetry, 51, 57 ff., 279

Redford, 294 ff.

Redistribution, 6, 49 ff., 57, 59, 279

Reform Bill, 84

Regeneration Societies, 177

Reichsmark, 224, 251

Remer, Charles Frederick, 276

Rhodes, Island, 56

Ricardo, David, 26, 88, 89, 103, 109, 113, 116, 120, 121, 131, 132, 143, 192, 205, 212, 231, 234, 285, 299

“Right to live,” 82 ff., 92, 106, 122

Rivera, Primo de, 246

Robbins, L., 272

Robinson, Henry, 110

Rockefeller Foundation, 11

Rodbertus, Johann Karl, 191

Rogers, Wood, 118

Roman Catholic Church, 7, 9, 154

Roosevelt, Theodore, 155

Rostovtzeff, M. I., 272

Rothschild family, 10, 18, 29

Rothschild, Nathan Meyer, 23

Romania, 6, 25, 251; currency, 27

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 7, 46, 88

Ruggles, Theodore, 297

Russell, Bertrand, 272

Russia, 6, 8, 19, 30, 255; balance of power, 270; Constitution, 265; currency, 25; five-year plans, 24; Socialism, 243, 252, 255

Russian Revolution, 255–256

Sabatier, William, 297

Sadler, Michael Thomas, 174

St. Giles-in-the-Fields, 297

Saint-Simon, Count Claude Henri de, 178

Satanic mills, 8, 35 ff.

Saunders, Robert, 297

Savages. See Primitive man.

Schacht, Hjalmar, 253

Schafer, Felix, 11, 206

Schmoller, Gustav Friedrich von, 284

Schuman, F., 270, 272

Schumpeter, Joseph Alois, 286

Seipel, Ignaz, 237

Serbia, 6

Seven Years’ War, 221

Shaftesbury, Seventh Earl (Anthony Ashley Cooper), 174

Sheep-farming, 36

Sherer, J. G., 297

Sheriffian empires, 5

Siam, 6

Silesian loan, 17

Simon, Sir John, 253

Slaves, 121

Smith, Adam, 45, 46, 92, 97, 108, 115, 116, 117, 119, 129, 146, 173, 221, 258, 303

Snowden, Philip, 26, 236

Social Democrats, 154, 197, 247

Social insurance, 184

Socialism, 31, 242–243

Society, 3, 26, 32, 42 ff., 48, 57–58, 74–75, 76, 88–89, 116, 159 ff., 195, 205–206, 225, 284; and freedom, 257 ff.; and the industrial revolu- tion, 41; integration of, 264; primitive, 48–49, 60–61; research on, 276–277; self-protection, 136 ff.

Sokolnikoff, G. Y., 26

Somerset, Lord Protector, 37

Sontag, R. J., 8, 273, 276

Sorel, Georges, 246

Southey, Robert, 174

Spain, 5, 29, 36

Spanish-American War, 17

Spann, Othmar, 246

Speenhamland, 81 ff., 99 ff., 128, 173, 231, 300, 288–289; abolition, 105; cotton industry, 143; law, 82, 83, 99, 106; literature of, 285 ff.; payment of rates, 96; a war measure? 288 ff.

Spencer, Herbert, 46, 88, 148, 152, 195, 234, 288

Spitalfields institution, 297

Staley, Eugene, 276

Stalin, Joseph, 111

Statute of Artificers, 73, 91, 175, 232, 299

Stephen, Sir Leslie, 111, 126, 286

Stolper, G., 273

Storage (primitive societies), 50, 51, 54

Storm troops, 198

Strafford, First Earl (Thomas Wentworth), 37

Strains and stresses, 218 ff.

Strikes, 238–239

Stuart policy, 38, 39, 79

Stuart, Henry, 291

Sumner, William Graham, 148, 234

Switzerland, 5

Symbiosis, 29, 54, 250, 282

Syria, 6

Tariffs. See Customs tariffs.

Tawney, R. H., 37

Telford, Thomas, 97, 124

Temple, Sir William, 269

Ten Hours Bill, 174

Thirty Years’ Peace, 18

Thompson, E., 303

Thurnwald, R. C., 54, 61, 66, 166, 172, 277 ff., 281, 301

Thyssen, Fritz, 21

Tikopia, 281

Tocqueville, Charles Henri de, 185

Totalitarianism, 29

Town against countryside, 292 ff.

Towns, allowance system in industrial, 294 ff.

Townsend, Joseph, 97, 98, 116 ff., 123, 132, 143, 231, 285, 297

Toynbee, A. J., 172, 198, 270, 272, 286

Trade, 95, 108, 273–274, 281–282; cer- emonial, 64–65; fluctuation, 95– 96; foreign, 216–217, 283; local, 62, 63–64, 66–67; long distance, 62, 66–67; national, 63–64; and peace, 15–16, 23; sea-borne, 41; silent (or dumb), 63; world, 226–227. See also Free trade.

Trade cycle, 97, 215

Trade unions, 113, 150, 192, 213; on the Continent, 184; in England, 184; laws, 155; and Owenism, 176–177

Treaty of Berlin, 1878, 15

Treaty of Münster and Westphalia, 7, 270

Treaty of 1648, 271

Treaty of Utrecht, 7, 271

Trevelyan, G. M., 196, 269

Trobriand Islanders, 50, 52–53

Trotsky, Leon, 24, 26, 251

Tudor period, 36 ff.

Tudors, 79, 195, 285

Tunis, 6

Turkey, 8, 15

Turner, Frederick, 270

Tutorial classes, 11

T. V. A. (Tennessee Valley Authority), 194

“Two Nations,” 123

Ukraine, 247

Ulloa, Antonio de, 118

Unemployment, 91, 98, 150, 218 ff., 232, 245; invisible, 95

Union shops, 176

United States, 29, 30, 226; and the balance of power, 270; and cus- toms tariffs, 226; and expansion, 6; and Fascism, 246, 249; and the gold standard, 27; and laissez- faire, 149; and prosperity, 251; off the gold standard, 149, 208, 238, 252

Universal suffrage, 216

Utopia, 3, 108 ff., 220

Utrecht, Treaty of. See Treaty of Utrecht.

Utu, 64

Vaccination, 152

Vancouver, John, 297

Vattel, Emmeriche de, 269

Venice, 5, 66

Vienna, 24, 28, 154, 181, 298–299

Villages of Co-operation, 177–178

Villages of Union, 113

Viner, Charles, 276

Vives, Juan Luis, 172

Voltaire, Francois Marie de, 88

Wafer, Lionel, 118

Wages, 42, 82, 94, 100, 101–102, 120, 172–173; assessments, 90; urban, and the rural community, 290 ff.

Wagner, Adolph, 212

Wall Street, 28, 221, 238, 252, 253, 274, 276

War, 15, 158, 175. See also individual wars.

Wealth, 116–117. See also Money.

Webb, Sidney and Beatrice, 121, 143, 287, 294, 298

Weber, Max, 48, 281, 283

Weimar Republic, 247

Western Europe, 25

Westphalia, Treaty of. See Treaty of Münster and Westphalia.

Whately, Bishop, 185

Whitbread’s Bill, 299 ff.

Whitbread’s minimum wage proposal, 112

Wicksell, Knut, 212

Wieser, Friedrich von, 212

Williams, F. E., 301–302

Wilson, Rev. Edward, 297, 300

Wilson, Woodrow, 23, 24

Wissel, Clark, 301

Wood, J., 297

Woollen industry, 36, 39, 77

Working class. See Labour.

Workmen’s Compensation, 153–154

Workmen’s Compensation Act, 153–154

Workers’ Educational Association, 11

World War I, 21–22, 24, 197, 199, 221; compared with World War II, 30

W. P. A. (Works Progress Administration), 288

Wright, Quincy, 273

Young, Arthur, 112, 288, 289

Young, Sir W., 297

Young Plan, 224

Zamindar, 158

Zapotec Indians, 302

Zeisel, Hans, 11