ABSTRACT

SUMMAHY.- We may apply the ]J7'inciples we ha've been studying to the analysis of a 1niseellaneou,s set of phenomena in the social and industrinl world, both by Wlty of exercise and by way of test in,,! the principles themselves, The subjects dwscn ,in this chapter are gambling, the housing problem, unemployment, dcp7'ession and crises, the immediate and pCr1nltnent effects of' attempts to relieve dist1'ess, 07' of chnn,,!es in e.xpenditu1'(', the meaning of the. nat'ional ,income find the leg'itimacy of inferring from it the ltVeragl: command of corntnodit-ies and services which 'Would accrue to eadt indh,id1tal if' 'Wealth were mon evenly dist7'ibutl'd.