Reviewed by H. P. Fairchild
+ N Y Evening Post p16 Ap 24 ’20 100w
“That his discussion slips into a discussion of British taxes in particular lessens the value of his conclusions little, if any, so nearly alike is the condition of nations in general as a result of war burdens.”
+ N Y Times p26 Ag 15 ’20 1450w
Reviewed by Lawson Purdy
* + Survey 44:287 My 22 ’20 2800w
“The book is full of assumptions that propositions have been proved when they have only been asserted, and of insinuations regarding facts and inferences from them which it is impossible to make good. The case is, indeed, put before us with an ingenuity which might almost be called Jesuitical, if Mr Hobson were not so audaciously open, and even truculent, in his demand for the increase of the ‘public’ income at the expense of the ‘private surplus,’ in order to supply the assumed ‘needs’ of the state.”
− The Times [London] Lit Sup p395 Jl 24 ’19 1850w
HOBSON, S. G. National guilds and the state. *$4 (*12s 6d) Macmillan 338.6
(Eng ed 20–16216)