Principles of Political Economy, Vol. 2Roscher, Wilhelm
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Principles of Political Economy, Vol. 2
Roscher, Wilhelm
Economics
[Footnote 196-3: Thus _Ganilh_, Théorie de l'Economie
politique I, p. 145, was of the opinion that in France's
foreign trade the profit was only 20, and in its internal
trade, scarcely 10 per cent. of the value put in
circulation.]
[Footnote 196-4: _Hermann_ loc. cit. 208.]
[Footnote 196-5: According to _Sinclair_, Grundgesetze des
Ackerbaues, 1821, the profit on capital of English farmers
was wont to be from 10 to 18 per cent. Only in very
remarkable cases, by persons in very favorable
circumstances, was from 15 to 20 per cent. earned; that is,
on the whole, less than in commerce and industry. In the
case of farmers of meadow land, 15 per cent. and even more
was not unusual; because there is a need of less outlay
here, but more mercantile speculation, especially in the
fattening of live stock.
At the end of the last century English farmers expected 10
per cent. profit on their capital. (_A. Young_, View of the
Agriculture of Suffolk, 1797, 25.) And so _Senior_ is of
opinion that, in the England of to-day, industrial
enterprises of £100,000 yield a profit of less than 10 per
cent. a year; those of £40,000, at least 12½ per cent.;
those of from £10,000 to £20,000, 15 per cent.; smaller ones
20 per cent. and even more. He makes mention of fruit
hucksters who earned over 20 per cent. a day; that is, over
7,000 per cent. a year! (Outlines, 203 seq.) In Manchester,
manufacturers, according to the same authority, turned over
their capital twice a year at 5 per cent.; retail dealers,
three times a year at 3½ per cent. (Ibid, 143.) _Torrens_,
The Budget (1844), 108, designates 7 per cent. as the
minimum profit which would induce an English capitalist to
engage in an enterprise of his own. According to _v.
Viebahn_, Statistik des Regierungsbezirks Düsseldorf, 836,
I, 180, the undertaker's profit, i. e., the surplus money of
the value of the manufactured articles, after deduction made
of the raw material and wages, in the Berg country, amounted
to, in 81 iron factories, 146,400 thalers; in 6 cotton
factories, to 21,200 thalers; in 15 cloth factories, to
14,725 thalers; in 4 worsted factories, to 1,700 thalers; in
4 brush factories, to 800 thalers; in 2 tobacco factories to
10,220 thalers; in 2 paper factories, to 7,400 thalers; on
an average, 1,924 thalers; although many undertakers earned
only from 200 to 400 thalers, and some few from 5,000 to
10,000 thalers.]
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