56. Give what you conceive to be the chief arguments in favor of the institution of private property, as opposed to common ownership.
57. What arguments does Mr. Mill suggest in favor of some redistribution of landed property?
58. What are the economic arguments for and against Communism?
59. In what way, and by what means, do Socialists want to alter the present distribution of wealth?
60. Sketch the principal forms of Communistic and Non-communistic Socialism.
61. Should the power of bequest be limited?
Wages.
62. On what, according to Mill, does the rate of wages depend? Hence, show the fallacy of the popularly proposed remedies for low wages.
63. State and examine the principal theories which have been put forward as to the circumstances which regulate the general rate of wages, saying which you deem to be correct, and why so.
64. Mr. Thornton argues that the wages-fund is neither “determined” nor “limited”: not “determined,” because there is no “law” to compel capitalists to devote any portion of their wealth to the payment [pg 642] of labor, nor are they morally “bound” to do so; and not “limited,” because there is nothing to prevent them from adding to the portion of their wealth so applied. Criticise this argument, and, if you dissent from Mr. Thornton's view, state the causes which “determine” and “limit” the fund in question.