7. What is meant by the standard of life?
Note.—The subject of population generally is discussed under the name of "The Malthusian Doctrine" and much space is given to it in the texts. So much useless controversy has been occasioned by the ambiguities of Malthus's argument that it seemed best not to introduce this difficulty into the text. The subject is discussed with broadest view by A. T. Hadley, Economics, Secs. 47-60. The writer attempted to make a judicial study of Malthus and his work in Versuch einer Bevölkerungslehre, Jena, 1894, and sought to put the discussion on higher ground in an article in the Yale Review, August, 1898, "The Essay of Malthus, a Centennial Review."
Chapter 22. Conditions for Efficient Labor
1. Is hunger the cause of food?
2. Is there any relation between a republican form of government and the growth of manufactures.
3. What are the necessary conditions to the building of a house: (a) natural forces; (b) changes in material things; (c) human activities; (d) social conditions?
4. Is the public school system an economic factor? Where among the four preceding heads would you classify it?
5. From an economic standpoint, can we say that robbery really reduces the wealth in existence?
6. When does an industrious man stop working on his own farm, and why?
7. With a given number of workers, what may be causes of differences in the labor-supply?