The High Cost of Living (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Frederic Clemson Howe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330610792 ISBN 13 : 9781330610794

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Public Goods, Private Plates explains how public ownership and organized markets can lower food costs and broaden opportunity.

Across Australia, Germany, and Denmark, Howe shows how state-owned railroads, markets, and abattoirs reduce middlemen and connect farmers to consumers, while parcel-post and municipal facilities help bring fresh food to cities. The book frames a broad program for agriculture and food distribution. It argues that freedom in farming comes from access to land, transportation, credit, and fair markets, all supported by public action rather than private monopolies. It offers concrete examples of how governments can organize production, storage, and distribution to reduce costs and improve reliability.

• How public institutions can streamline marketing from the farm to the table.
• Strategies for ending tenancy and encouraging farmer ownership through affordable credit and land use reform.
• Examples of public slaughterhouses, municipal markets, and parcel-post systems in action.
• A critique of private middlemen and a case for state-led infrastructure to stabilize prices.

Ideal for readers curious about economic reform, public policy, and the future of food systems.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The High Cost of Living

The high cost of living is not a war product. The war hastened tendencies. It aggravated conditions. It gave opportunities for speculation and extortion. But the cost of living was rising rapidly before the war. And it will continue to rise when the war is over unless radical steps are taken to prevent it.

The last few years have witnessed a change in the economic foundations of American life. Competition is passing. Monopoly has entered into almost every process of industry. The laws of demand and supply no longer protect us. A host of intermediaries have wedged themselves in between the producer and the consumer, each one of which is interested in taking as large a profit for himself as possible. This is not only true of food, it is true of almost every necessity of life. Even more important, the control of the land and resources of the earth has diminished production. It has excluded men from the land. It has limited the opportunities of labor. It has checked initiative. It has reduced the amount of wealth produced.

Monopoly is responsible for the conditions which confront us.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330610792
• ISBN 13: 9781330610794
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 289
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