Under the name of profits, rent, interest upon
capital, surplus value, and the like, economists
have eagerly discussed the benefits which the
owners of land or capital, or some privileged
nations, can derive, either from the under-paid
work of the wage-labourer, or from the inferior
position of one class of the community towards
another class, or from the inferior economical
development of one nation towards another
nation. These profits being shared in a very
unequal proportion between the different individuals,
classes and nations engaged in production,
considerable pains were taken to study the
present apportionment of the benefits, and its
economical and moral consequences, as well as
the changes in the present economical organisation
of society which might bring about a more
equitable distribution of a rapidly accumulating
wealth. It is upon questions relating to the
right to that increment of wealth that the hottest
battles are now fought between economists of
different schools.
capital, surplus value, and the like, economists
have eagerly discussed the benefits which the
owners of land or capital, or some privileged
nations, can derive, either from the under-paid
work of the wage-labourer, or from the inferior
position of one class of the community towards
another class, or from the inferior economical
development of one nation towards another
nation. These profits being shared in a very
unequal proportion between the different individuals,
classes and nations engaged in production,
considerable pains were taken to study the
present apportionment of the benefits, and its
economical and moral consequences, as well as
the changes in the present economical organisation
of society which might bring about a more
equitable distribution of a rapidly accumulating
wealth. It is upon questions relating to the
right to that increment of wealth that the hottest
battles are now fought between economists of
different schools.
