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    • On the impolicy of a revival of protection as a remedy for the present depression 

      Moylan, J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)
      With the now extended experience we have had of the vast benefits of free-trade, with the generally increased prosperity of the empire consequent thereon, with the augmented population of the sister kingdoms, and the ...
    • The periodicity of commercial crises, and its physical explanation 

      Jevons, W. Stanley (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)
      The depression of trade, which has now lasted for some four or five years, with gradually increasing intensity, has naturally attracted considerable attention. All kinds of reasons have been offered to explain its origin?wars, ...
    • Reciprocity 

      McCarty, E. A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)
      The existing depression of trade is the severest perhaps on record, and certainly has dragged us through as harassing a length of time as any that ever afflicted commerce. The distress sounds the circumstances of every ...