Browsing Archive JSSISI: 1847- Complete Collection by Date of Publication
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On the cost of obtaining patents of invention in different countries
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)In this paper I propose to direct your attention to some statistical information respecting the cost of obtaining patents or brevets of invention in different countries, which I have arranged in the following tabular form. -
Absenteeism economically considered
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)Gentlemen,?In addressing you this evening, I am anxious to confine myself as much as possible to absenteeism considered as a mere question of pounds, shillings, and pence, and as it affects the transfer of wealth from ... -
The over-population fallacy considered
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)We hear so much at the present day about over-population and the remedies suggested for that disease, that I think it will not be uninteresting to inquire what over-population is, when it can properly be said to exist, ... -
On cottier rents
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)The word competition merely expresses the intensity of the effectual demand. Men compete for an object because they desire it, but they do not desire it because they compete for it. There are thus three points connected ... -
Report on the patent laws
(Society for Promoting Scientific Inquiries into Social Questions, 1851)I have, at your request, inquired into the state of the Law of Patents in this country, and I now beg to lay before you the result of that inquiry. My attention was particularly directed by you, "to the expense and delay ... -
Address at the opening of the fifth session of the Dublin Statistical Society
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1851)Honoured by the request of the council of this society that I should, as acting vice-president, open the business of this its fifth session with such observations as might serve to supplement the annual report which, ... -
On the advantages and disadvantages of indirect taxation, and a scheme for direct taxation which would be equitable, and combine the advantages of an indirect tax
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1851)There are two methods of lightening the pressure of those taxes which must be raised for the expenses of government; one, by lessening the expenditure; and the other, by so arranging taxation, that it shall press as ... -
Report on the legislative measures requisite to facilitate the adoption of commercial contracts respecting the occupation of land in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)Having been requested by you "to report for your consideration the principal leading alterations in the laws respecting the relation of landlord and tenant in Ireland, required for the full adoption of the following ... -
A consideration of the theory that the backward state of agriculture in Ireland is a consequence of the excessive competition for land
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1851)The theory, that injurious consequences result to the community from excessive competition for land, is one that has many supporters at the present time; and as the choice of measures for better regulating the relation ... -
Thoughts on reading the Hon. John P. Vereker's paper on absenteeism
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)Even if we grant that Absenteeism is an evil, in an economical sense, what then? How would you cure it, without interfering with personal freedom? Who do you call an absentee? Is it the man who derives rent from one ... -
Lecture on an international code of commerce morally and judicially considered
(Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)The purpose and end of all social inquiries is to connect abstract theories with the practical business of life; to discover that link by which the conception of an idea may be joined to its realization, and to analyse, ... -
On the causes of the distress at Skull and Skibbereen, during the famine in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)In this paper I propose to direct your attention to some statistical information which throws considerable light on the real causes of distress in Ireland. The information relates to a tract of land situate in the ... -
Address of His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin [at the first Annual Meeting of the Social Inquiry Society of Ireland]
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)His Grace expressed his great satisfaction at the establishment of such a society as that, which seemed to him calculated to meet in some, perhaps in a very great measure, one very great evil, which was essentially ... -
On the general principles of taxation, as illustrating the advantages of a perfect income tax
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)Gentlemen?The duties of a government, as enumerated by Adam Smith, are four in number:? 1st?To guard against foreign aggression. 2nd?To secure against internal fraud or violence. 3rd?To maintain public institutions which ... -
On Irish absenteeism
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)There are few questions in political economy on which a greater diversity of opinion has prevailed, than the one which I have selected as the subject of my paper this evening. Thus, some allege "that absenteeism is not ... -
On the prospects of the beet sugar manufacture in Ireland
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1851)It was the great importance attached to the beet-sugar manufacture by some advocates of its introduction, which led me to direct my attention to the economic conditions necessary to its success. It is necessary to obtain ... -
Should boards of guardians endeavour to make pauper-labour self supporting or should they investigate the causes of pauperism?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)The controversies, as well theoretical as practical, respecting the mode in which poor laws should be administered, have generally arisen from taking too narrow a view of the subject. The all important question of the ... -
Address on the conclusion of the third session of the Dublin Statistical Society
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)It is usual and desirable that at the close of each session of our Society, when we pause for a time in the prosecution of our labours, we should look generally at the position we have attained, and, suspending for the ... -
Remarks on the adjustment of the poor rate taxation in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)While it is the fashion of all classes of individuals at the present day, and for the last few years, as far back as I can call to memory, to rail at the taxation imposed on them by the government of our country, to ... -
On the effect of the usury laws on the trade of lending money to the poor in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)In the course of some investigations into the condition of the poorer classes in Ireland, my attention has been directed to the state of the trade of lending money amongst them. I find that whilst the large farmers ...