Principles of Political Economy, Vol. 2Roscher, Wilhelm
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Principles of Political Economy, Vol. 2
Roscher, Wilhelm
Economics
B. Wages and interest for the labor and capital utilized
only in one's own production, and which cannot be let. _v.
Mangoldt_ himself admits, that, in the long run, only
certain qualified labor belongs to this category.
C. Undertaker's rent (_Unternekmerrente_) depending on the
rarity of undertakers (men of enterprise) compared with the
demand. This, therefore, is not a third component part, but
only one which adds to the other two, _Storch_, Handbuch, I,
180, and _Rau_, Lehrbuch, I, § 237 ff., consider the profit
of the undertaker as an admixture of wages and interest.
Professor _J. Miscszewicz_ has given expression to an
interesting thought in opposition to myself: that credit is
a fourth factor of production (natural forces, labor and
capital being the other three) produced by the three older
factors, as capital by the two oldest. The undertaker's
profit he then considers the product of this fourth factor,
corresponding to rent, interest and wages.]
[Footnote 195-5: Compare _Canard_, Principes, ch. 3; _J. B.
Say_, Traité, II, ch. 7, Cours pratique, V, 1-2, 7-9,
distinguishes three branches of income: rent, interest and
the profits of industry; and he divides the latter again
into the profits of the _savant_, the undertaker and
workmen, (_v. Jacob_, Grundsätze der Nat.-Oek., § 292;
_Lotz_, Handbuch, I, 471; _Schmalz_,
Staatswirthschaftslehre, I, 116; _Nebenius_, Œff. Credit,
I, Aufl., 466.)]
[Footnote 195-6: I need only call attention to the influence
that the mere name of a general sometimes exerts over the
achievements and sometimes even over the composition of his
army (Wallenstein!); and how important it sometimes is to
keep his death a secret. And so the mere name of a minister
of finance may facilitate loans, etc.]
[Footnote 195-7: It is sufficient to mention the different
positions occupied by the shareholders and preferred
creditors of a joint-stock company.]
[Footnote 195-8: Compare _von Thünen's_ Isolirter Statt, II,
80 ff., and his Life, 1868, 96. _Meister muss sich immer
plagen!_ (_Schiller._) See a long catalogue of books on the
position of the undertaker in the principal different
branches of industry in _Steinlein_, Handbuch der
Volkswirthschaftslehre, I, 445 ff.]
[Footnote 195-9: _Tantièmes_ occupy a middle place between
wages and the undertaker's profit; dividends a middle place
between undertaker's profit and the interest of capital. On
this is based _Rodbertus's_ view, that an increase of joint
stock companies raises _ceteris paribus_ the rate of
interest, and an increase of productive associations the
rate of wages, for the reason that in each instance, there
is some admixture of "undertaker's profit," or reward of
enterprise.]
SECTION CXCVI.
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