5. What would be the effect on interest, land rent, and wages of a great increase of national saving?
6. What concern have the poor in the abundance of capital? The rich in the abundance of labor?
7. Walker says that the laborer gets what is left after the other shares are deducted according to their law; wages are the residual claimant. Are the other shares independent of wages?
8. Can wage-earners be shut out from all advantages in the land of the country?
9. Are high wages and high interest seen to go together? Give such examples as you think of.
10. Do improvements in agriculture increase or decrease the rent of land?
Chapter 44. Free Competition and State Action
1. What is economic freedom? How different from political freedom?
2. Does the presence of a policeman increase or diminish competition among men?