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  • Aspects of the agricultural crisis at home and abroad 

    Johnston, Joseph (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1935)
    A Barrington Lecture on the above subject has recently been given in Cork, Enniscorthy, Limerick and Sligo, and this paper represents the further elaboration of the material collected for that lecture. The paper itself ...
  • The capitalisation of Irish agriculture 

    Johnston, Joseph (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1942)
    The value of a farm from a strictly agricultural point of view is a capitalisation of the income which a purchaser, whose principal occupation is farming, might hope to make in virtue of his ownership as such. In making ...
  • Discussion on the future of Irish external trade 

    Kennedy, Henry; Johnston, Joseph; O'Hegarty, P. S.; Edgeworth, K. E.; O Coineain, A.; Mortished, R. J. P.; Meenan, James; Geary, R. C.; Beddy, J. P. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1944)
    Dr. Henry Kennedy said that his contribution to the Discussion would take the form of a detailed estimate of the productive potential of our land. He would leave to other speakers consideration of the economic and perhaps ...
  • An economic basis for an Irish rural civilisation 

    Johnston, Joseph (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1948)
    The general argument of this paper is that if we would establish a suitable economic basis for a worth-while Irish rural civilisation we must have, not only co-operation of farmers living in their scattered homesteads, ...
  • Economic leviathans 

    Johnston, Joseph (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1953)
    Students of world economic affairs in the inter-war period were impressed by the extent to which the world scene was dominated by the economic policies (or impolicies) of two great economic leviathans : the U.S.A., and ...
  • National transport problems 

    Johnston, Joseph (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1930)
    The object of this Paper is to direct attention to certain important economic facts affecting our transport system, and provide where possible a statistical measurement of those facts. The treatment is neither comprehensive ...
  • A plea for winter dairying 

    Johnston, Joseph (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1931)
    Countrymen are familiar with the practice of holding out a carrot to an obstinate type of quadruped in order to induce it to go where it would otherwise be unwilling to go. When it gets there it may possibly get some ...
  • Raw materials for Irish animal husbandry 

    Johnston, Joseph (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1951)
    There are three possible objectives for agricultural production. One may produce cash crops for direct human consumption. This, of course, involves tillage. One may produce animal products also for human consumption; In ...
  • Some causes and consequences of distributive waste 

    Johnston, Joseph (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1927)
    The distinction between Effective Demand and Ineffective Demand is one of the commonplaces of Economics. An analogous distinction between Effective Supply and Ineffective Supply ought to be recognised. Ineffective Supply ...
  • Symposium on social security 

    Eason, J. C. M.; Coyne, E. J.; Mortished, R. J. P.; Henderson, R.; Johnston, Joseph; McElhinney, John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1950)
    When I was asked to make some comments upon the White Paper entitled ?Social Security? no indication was given as to the particular aspect with which I was expected to deal. The paper is of importance because it summarises ...