Essays in Liberalism

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Various

Title

Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922

Original Publication

London : W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., c1922

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Produced by Melissa Er-Raqabi, Jonathan Niehof, Ted Garvin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

JN: Political science: Political inst. and pub. Admin.: Europe

Subject

Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1910-1936

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Text

eBook-No.

17294

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17294

Release Date

December 12, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.ESSAYS IN LIBERALISM
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND THE REHABILITATION OF EUROPE — By the Rt. Hon. Lord Robert Cecil — K.C., M.P., Assistant Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1918. Minister of Blockade, 1916-1918. Representative of Union of South Africa at Assembly of League of Nations. — The Two Views of the League — The Negative and the Positive — The Spirit of the League — The Mistake of Versailles — Economic Peace — The Two Causes of Unrest
5. 5.THE BALANCE OF POWER — By Professor A.F. Pollard — Hon. Litt.D.; Fellow of All Souls’ College, Oxford; F.B.A.; Professor of English History in the University of London; Chairman of the Institute of Historical Research. — Balance or League? — The Theory of Balance — The Change since Castlereagh — Mischievous Hallucination — Where the Line is Drawn — Basis of Security — The Alternative
6. 6.INTERNATIONAL DISARMAMENT — By Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice, K.C.M.G., C.B. — Director of Military Operations—Imperial General Staff, 1915-16. — A Group of New Armies — The League’s Commission — Washington — A General Defensive Pact — The Appeal to Public Opinion
7. 7.REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBT — By John Maynard Keynes — M.A., C.B.; Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge; Editor of Economic Journal since 1912; principal representative of the Treasury at the Paris Peace Conference, and Deputy for the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Supreme Economic Council, Jan.-June, 1919. — The Breakdown of Germany — The Illusion of a Loan — A Policy for the Liberal Party
8. 8.THE OUTLOOK FOR NATIONAL FINANCE — By Sir Josiah Stamp, K.B.E., D.Sc. — Assistant Secretary Board of Inland Revenue, 1916-19. Member of Royal Commission on Income Tax, 1919. — The Two Parts of a Budget — A Century of the National Debt — The Capital Levy — Difficulties of Valuation — A Desperate Remedy
9. 9.FREE TRADE — By Rt. Hon. J.M. Robertson — P.C.; President of National Liberal Federation since 1920; M.P. (L.), Tyneside Division, Northumberland, 1906-18; Parliamentary Secretary to Board of Trade, 1911-15. — The “New Circumstances” Cry — Tariffs and Wages — Members One of Another — The Dyestuffs Act — The Paris Resolutions — Science and Experience
10. 10.INDIA — By Sir Hamilton Grant — K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E.; Chief Commissioner, North-West Frontier Province, India; Deputy Commissioner of various Frontier districts; Secretary to Frontier Administration; Foreign Secretary, 1914-19; negotiated Peace Treaty with Afghanistan, 1919. — Frontier Raids — Frontier Policy — Afghanistan — Internal Unrest — The Rise of Ghandi — The Present Situation — Our Duty To India
11. 11.EGYPT — By J.A. Spender — Editor of the Westminster Gazette , 1896 to 1922; Member of the Special Mission to Egypt, 1919-1920. — After-War Mistakes — The Hope of the Future
12. 12.THE MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT — By Ramsay Muir — Professor of Modern History in the University of Manchester, 1913 to 1921. — The Growth of the Civil Service — A Check upon Bureaucracy — The Cabinet — Modern Changes in the Cabinet — The House of Commons — Representation of “Interests” — Devolution
13. 13.THE STATE AND INDUSTRY — By W.T. Layton — M.A., C.H., C.B.E.; Editor of the Economist , 1922; formerly Member of Munitions Council, and Director of Economic and Financial Section of the League of Nations; Director of Welwyn Garden City; Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 1910. — The Liberal Bias — Retrospect and Prospect — State Ownership: For and Against — Trusts and Monopolies — Distribution — The Case for Profit-Sharing — Industrial Publicity — A National Industrial Council
14. 14.THE REGULATION OF WAGES — By Professor L.T. Hobhouse — Professor of Sociology, London University. — The Establishment of Trade Boards — Women’s Wages — The Question of a Single Minimum — Trade Boards Holding the Field
15. 15.UNEMPLOYMENT — By H.D. Henderson — M.A.; Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge; Lecturer in Economics; Secretary to the Cotton Control Board from 1917-1919. — The Causes of Trade Depressions — The Scale of Relief — A Model Scheme from Lancashire — The Moral Obligation of Industries — The Present Machinery of Relief
16. 16.THE PROBLEM OF THE MINES — By Arnold D. McNair — M.A., LL.M., C.B.E.; Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; Secretary of Coal Conservation Committee, 1916-1918; Secretary of Advisory Board of Coal Controller, 1917-1919; Secretary of Coal Industry Commission, 1919 (Sankey Commission). — The Liberalisation of Industry — The Question of Royalties — A National Mining Board — The Mystery as to Profits — The Lessees of the Future
17. 17.THE LAND QUESTION — By A.S. Comyns Carr — Member of Acquisition of Land Committee, 1918. — Housing — Land for Public Purposes — Rating Relief for Improvements — The Lesson of the Slums — A Rate and a Tax upon Site Values
18. 18.AGRICULTURAL QUESTIONS — By Rt. Hon. F.D. Acland — P.C.; M.P. (L.) North-West Cornwall; Financial Secretary, War Office, 1908-10; Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1911-15; Financial Secretary to Treasury, Feb.-June, 1915; Secretary to the Board of Agriculture, 1915-16; a Forestry Commissioner. Chairman of the Agricultural Organisation Society. — The Destruction of a Policy — Employment and Wages — Access to the Land — Independence — Co-operation

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