The Acquisitive SocietyTawney, R. H. (Richard Henry)
Philosophy
The Acquisitive Society
Tawney, R. H. (Richard Henry)
Economics; Industries; Social problems
Pensioners, 34
Poverty a symptom of social disorder, 5
Private enterprise and public ownership, 118-120
Private ownership, 120; abolition of, 147; of industrial capital,
105-106
Private rights and public welfare, 14-15
Privileges, 24
Producer, obligation of the, 127-128; responsibility of, 128
Production, increased, 5; large scale and small scale, 87;
misdirection of, 37-39; why not increased, 136
Productivity, 4, 46
Professional Spirit, the, 149-150
Profits, and production, 173-176; division of, 133
Proletariat, 19, 65
Property, absolute rights of, 52, 80; and creative work, 52 _et seq._;
classification of, 63, 64; complexity of, 75; functionless, 76-77, 81;
in land, 56-60; in rights and royalties, 62; minority ownership
of, 79; most ambiguous of categories, 53-54; passive ownership of,
62; private, 70-72; protection of, 78-70; rights, 50-51; security in,
72-73; socialist fallacy regarding, 86
Proudhon, 54
Publicity of costs and profits, 85, 123-124, 126, 132
Redmayne, Sir Richard, 149
Reformation the, 10-13; effect on society, 12-14
Reform Bill of 1832, 69
Religion, 10; changes in, 11-12
Report of the United States Industrial Commission, 1916, 128-129
Riches, meaning of, 98
Rights of Man, French Declaration of, the, 16, 52
Rights, and Functions, 8-19; doctrine of, 21 _et seq._, 43-44; without
functions, 61
Rights of the shareholder, 75
Royalties, 23-24, 62
Royalties, and property, 70; from coal mining properties, 88; a tax
upon the industry of others, 89
Sankey, Justice, 115, 117, 143, 165, 167, 168, 169
Security of income, 73-75
Service as a basis of remuneration, 25, 41-42, 85, 133
Shareholders, 91-92
Shells, cost of making, 124-125
Smith, Adam, 15, 52, 95
Social inequality, 36-37
Social reorganizations, schemes for, 5
Social war, 40
Socialism, 53
Society, duality of modern, 135
Society, functional organization of, 52
State management, 116, 117
Steel Corporation, 116
Supervision from within, 151
Syndicalism, 130
Taxation, 22
Trusts, Report on, 23
United States, transformation in, 65
Utilitarians, the English, 17
Utility, 16-17
"Vicious Circle," the, 43, 123-138
Voltaire, quoted, 55
Wages and costs, 131
Wages and profits, 78
Wealth, acquisition of, 20 _et seq._; as foundation for public esteem,
35-36; distribution of on basis of function, 77; fallacy of increased,
42-45; how to increase output of, 147; inequality of, 37-38;
limitation of, 36-37; output of, 37-38; production and consumption
of--a contrast, 77-78; waste of, 37-39
Whitley Councils, 110
Women self-supporting, 74
Worker and Spender, 77-78
Workers, collective responsibility of, 154
Workers' control, 128
Workmen, as "hands," 152; present independence of, 145-146;
responsibility of destroyed, 153-154; servants of shareholders,
136-137; treatment of, 152-153
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