The Hope That Poverty And Ignorance May

Capital Is That Part Of Wealth Which Is Devoted To Obtaining Further Wealth.

All Wealth Consists Of Desirable Things; That Is, Things Which Satisfy Human Wants Directly Or Indirectly: But Not All Desirable Things Are Reckoned As Wealth.

I Admit That These Terms And The Diagrams Connected With Them Repel Some Readers, And Fill Others With The Vain Imagination That They Have Mastered Difficult Economics Problems, When Really They Have Done Little More Than Learn The Language In Which Parts Of Those Problems Can Be Expressed, And The Machinery By Which They Can Be Handled. When The Actual Conditions Of Particular Problems Have Not Been Studied, Such Knowledge Is Little Better Than A Derrick For Sinking Oil-wells Erected Where There Are No Oil-bearing Strata.

Producer's Surplus Is A Convenient Name For The Genus Of Which The Rent Of Land Is The Leading Species.

The Commercial Storm Leaves Its Path Strewn With Ruin. When It Is Over There Is Calm, But A Dull, Heavy Calm.