Browsing Archive JSSISI: 1847- Complete Collection by Title
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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 ... -
On criminal statistics; especially with reference to population education and distress in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1864)In the session of this Society in 1860-61,I availed myself of the admirably arranged returns of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, to bring before the Society some of the aspects of crime in this city, especially in regard ... -
On death punishments
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)The many public executions which have taken place in these kingdoms, within a short and recent period of time, have forcibly drawn renewed public attention to the subject of capital punishment. To make such principles ... -
On fiscal relations of the United Kingdom and Ireland, with special reference to the state purchase of land
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1886)A scheme was put forward some short time ago, which promised to effect a radical and sweeping change in the ownership of the land, without imposing any great hardship or additional burden on any class in the State. Mr. ... -
On immunity against infectious disease, with special reference to anti-typhoid inoculation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1915)Success in a modern war depends on the intelligence with which it is waged?on the utilisation of every weapon which modern science places in our hands not merely for destroying the enemy but for the protection of our ... -
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 legal education in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1872)The object of this paper is to set forth the provision already made for legal education m Ireland; to examine how far the requirements of the legal profession are met by the means of legal education so provided?regard being ... -
On partnership with limited liability
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)Since I had the honour of submitting to this Society the paper prepared by me on the subject of limited liability, a Commission composed of eminent and learned men, entrusted with the task of taking evidence and reporting ... -
On partnerships of limited liability
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1852)The unlimited liability existing under the English law prevents a prudent man from connecting himself as a partner with any business to which he cannot give his personal attention. This operates as a restriction on the ... -
On partnerships with limited liability
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1854)If any apology, further than the importance of the subject, were required for a paper such as the present, after the very able and carefully written pamphlet of Mr. Colles, it would be found in the report of the select ... -
On producers and users of statistics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1989)It is always somewhat difficult for presidents of societies like The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society to decide on an appropriate topic for a presidential address. It is not normally an occasion for an in-depth ... -
On public parks in connexion with large towns, with a suggestion for a park in Belfast
(Belfast Social Inquiry Society, 1852)The importance of public parks and other open spaces in large towns is such as scarcely to admit of debate, yet the consideration of some of the advantages resulting from them cannot fail to be a matter of interest. ... -
On religious toleration for criminals
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)My object is indicated by the title of my paper. I wish for an enquiry into the extent and limits of religious toleration afforded to criminals in Ireland. It is not many years since the Protestant prisoner alone was ... -
On schools of design in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)The government having decided on establishing Schools of Ornamental Design in Ireland, and parliament having accordingly voted the sum of #1500 for the organization of such schools in Belfast, Dublin, and Cork, I conceive ... -
On some comparative statistics of Irish counties, compiled from the returns obtained during the late census and the census of 1841, and other publications issued by the General Register Office of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1883)In the following statement I wish to bring under review a number of statistics which I have arranged since the completion of the Census of 1881. These statistics are not altogether derived from the census reports, but are ... -
On some economic conditions of industrial development with special reference to the case of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1884)The improvement and expansion of the industrial powers of a country are naturally objects of considerable interest to all its inhabitants, but there does not appear to be any definite idea as to the laws which govern the ... -
On some of the difficulties in the way of creating a peasant proprietary in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1878)The enquiry, commenced last session, at the instance of Mr. Shaw Lefevre, into the working of the Bright Clauses of the Land Act, and the interest shown in the sales of the Church Temporalities Commissioners, suggested ... -
On strikes with respect to hours of labour
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1865)In old times, when business of all kinds was carried on in small establishments, the hours of labour were regulated by the hours kept by the employer and his family, who generally resided at the place of business, and ... -
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 ... -
On the advantages of policies of insurance terminable at the age of 63 or at death, instead of at death only
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)The common mode of life assurance is subject to one defect. If the insured should happen to attain a considerable age, he changes, as time advances, from being a productive member of society, to a state of inability for ...
