"Economic Prosperity in the British Empire" by Stephen Butler Leacock. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Economic Prosperity in the British Empire
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
PART I. UNTIL NOW
CHAPTER I. THE EMPIRE AS A PROPRIETARY ASSET
CHAPTER II. THE POSSIBLE EXPANSION OF THE WHITE RACE WITHIN THE BRITISH EMPIRE
CHAPTER III. THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC RELATIONS WITHIN THE EMPIRE
CHAPTER IV. THE MIGRATION OF POPULATION IN THE PAST
CHAPTER V. THE EXPORT AND INVESTMENT OF BRITISH CAPITAL
PART II. FROM NOW ON
CHAPTER I. A PROPOSAL FOR AN INTEGRATED TARIFF SYSTEM WITHIN THE EMPIRE
CHAPTER II. A PROPOSAL OF POLICY FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF NEW COUNTRY
CHAPTER III. THE INTEGRATION OF CREDIT, CURRENCY, AND CAPITAL
CHAPTER IV. THE INTELLECTUAL UNITY OF THE EMPIRE
CHAPTER V. WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT: THE WORK OF AN ECONOMIC CONFERENCE
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Stephen Butler Leacock
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The opportunity for expansion and development thus offered seems at first almost appalling. Here is a population of sixty-six and a half million people with undisputed access to the land and resources of a fifth of the globe. They are recognized by all other Powers, even if with a certain reluctance, as the “owner” of it. They are equipped with the technique of modern production, were themselves the first to invent it, and have control of monetary capital far greater than that of any European nation, as great perhaps indirectly as that of the United States.
The picture becomes still more highly coloured when we turn to enumerate the share of the British peoples in the principal natural commodities that serve as the basis of the world’s production of wealth. Of these the first and the most fundamental is arable land. The ploughshare is the earliest emblem of our Western civilization as it arose slowly out of and from the land. On the entire globe there are calculated to be 52,500,000 square miles of land surface, and of this 13,500,000 square miles are in the Empire. Only a fraction of this is now cultivated, in Australia only one per cent, in Canada three per cent. No estimate has ever been made of all the arable land in all the Empire. But from calculations made in regard to Canada, it is certain that in the great Dominions cultivation could easily be multiplied as five to one.
