The causes of poverty / by Callaghan McCarthy.

  • McCarthy, Callaghan.
Date:
1908
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Credit: The causes of poverty / by Callaghan McCarthy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    animal diseases, insect pests, etc. Owing to these and other causes several items of property are continually disappearing in greater or lesser num- bers. This, of course, involves the disappearance of so many sources of services, and accompanying reductions in the total outflow now under considera- tion. As in the case of mankind, we may, with the aid of this analysis, obtain a complete view of the stoppages that accompany private ownership, mismanagement, and destruction. We may again behold before us the world’s property, and perceive how much greater might be its services were it not for the restrictions that private ownership imposes on its various items—on mining property, agricul- tural property, factories, means of communication, buildings and their contents, etc. ; the mismanage- ment, that exists under both public and private ownership and diminishes the utility of various forms of property belonging to the groups just mentioned; and, finally, the destruction that accompanies wars, crime, carelessness, ignorance, accidents, fires, ex- plosions, shipwrecks, earthquakes, floods, excessive rains, droughts, storms, plant diseases, animal diseases, insect pests, etc. As in the case of human services, a considerable allowance must be made for what is absolutely unavoidable. But, in the same way, it may be seen how great would be the increase in the total outflow of services from pro- perty, if used for the purposes of human welfare rather than for the purposes of particular owners, if managed throughout the whole as efficiently as in particular existing instances, and if the forms
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