4. Why does the question of the control of the railways in the interest of the public present especial difficulties in America?
Chapter 57. Future Trend of Values
1. Make a list of the things discussed in this course that tend toward improving the average condition of men.
2. Make a list of those that tend toward worse conditions for the mass of men.
3. State what kinds of material agents will probably increase in value relative to other kinds, giving reasons.
4. State what to your mind are three important economic problems whose answer is most uncertain, giving reasons.
5. If you had the power, what single public measure that you believe would be practicable and effective would you put on the statute books, in order to make a juster division of the social income? Give reasons.
Note.—On the subject of this chapter, see Devine, Economics, ch. XVII (disposition of the social surplus); Jenks, The Trust Problem, pp. 190-211; Marshall, Bk. VI, chs. XI and XII.