1. Are all taxes of equal amount equally burdensome? Would a country fare as well if it raised its revenue by taxing saws and chisels instead of cigarettes and playing cards?
2. What are the effects of smuggling on (a) the public revenue, (b) honest merchants, (c) consumers?
3. How do the rates of the English tariff, as established at this time, compare with the rates of the present tariff of the United States?
4. On what articles are import duties still levied in Great Britain? [See Statesman’s Year-Book, index, Great Britain, customs.]
5. The corn laws and their effects. [Morley, Cobden, chap. 7; Rand. Ec. hist., chap. 9.]
6. English agriculture under the corn laws. [Traill, Soc. England, 6: 75-84, 211-217.]
7. The agitation for repeal of the corn laws. [McCarthy, vol. 1, chap. 14; Morley, Cobden, chap. 6.]
8. The repeal of the corn laws. [McCarthy, vol. 1, chap. 15.]
9. English agriculture after the repeal. [Traill, Soc. England, 6: 404-421, 599-607.]
10. What were the main features of the navigation acts? [See above, sect. 358, or study the main provisions in Rand, Ec. hist., appendix 1.]