Der Breisgau unter Maria Theresia und Joseph II.

Mode of access: Internet.

The British trade book covering the years 1880-1907, and showing the course of British and international commerce, with its bearing upon our internal trade and industries, etc.

Mode of access: Internet.

A sketch of the life and labors of Rev. Fletcher Thomas : for fifty-seven years a minister in the United Brethren Church, St. Joseph Annual Conference /

Mode of access: Internet.

Histoire de Joseph II, empereur d'Allemagne.

Mode of access: Internet.

A discourse delivered August 20, 1801 at the interment of Miss Lemira Wheaton : daughter of Capt. Joseph Wheaton of Rehoboth, who departed life, August 18, 1801, in the 21st year of her age /

Mode of access: Internet.

The works of Joseph Addison /

Including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection ; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works.

Representative American plays,

Contains reproductions of original title-pages of some of the plays.

Investigation of Panama canal matters. Hearings before the Committee on interoceanic canals of the United States Senate in the matter of the Senate resolution adopted January 9, 1906, providing for an investigation of matters relating to the Panama canal, etc.[Jan. 11, 1906-Feb. 12, 1907]

Joseph H. Millard, chairman.

Gedichte von Joseph Freiherrn von Jallačic.

Mode of access: Internet.

Memoirs of Joseph John Gurney;

Added t.-p., engraved. Preface dated 1854.

Life of Joseph Sturge / by Alexandrina Peckover.

Mode of access: Internet.

Past Department Commanders of the Grand Army of the Republic of Michigan, 1907

Taken at Negaunee, MI, July 1907. Brack Row, [L-R]: Joseph Griswold, Louis Kanitz, E.C. Cannon, C.V.R. Pond, Michael Brown, Oscar Jane. Front Row, [L-R]: John Northwood, Henry S. Dean, Edward C. Anthony, Byron R. Pierce

Debate on statutory control of the surveying profession in Queensland : 1907 to 1975

This article was written in 1997. After a 2009 review the content was left mostly unchanged - apart from this re-written abstract, restructured headings and a table of contents. The article deals directly with professional registration of surveyors; but it also relates to government procurement of professional services. The issues include public service and professional ethics; setting of professional fees; quality assurance; official corruption; and professional recruitment, education and training. Debate on the Land Surveyors Act 1908 (Qld) and its amendments to 1916 occurred at a time when industrial unrest of the 1890s and common market principles of the new Commonwealth were fresh in peoples’ minds. Industrial issues led to a constitutional crisis in the Queensland’s then bicameral legislature and frustrated a first attempt to pass a Surveyors Bill in 1907. The Bill was re-introduced in 1908 after fresh elections and Kidston’s return as state premier. Co-ordinated immigration and land settlement polices of the colonies were discontinued when the Commonwealth gained power over immigration in 1901. Concerns shifted to protecting jobs from foreign competition. Debate on 1974 amendments to the Act reflected concerns about skill shortages and professional accreditation. However, in times of economic downturn, a so-called ‘chronic shortage of surveyors’ could rapidly degenerate into oversupply and unemployment. Theorists championed a naïve ‘capture theory’ where the professions captured governments to create legislative barriers to entry to the professions. Supposedly, this allowed rent-seeking and monopoly profits through lack of competition. However, historical evidence suggests that governments have been capable of capturing and exploiting surveyors. More enlightened institutional arrangements are needed if the community is to receive benefits commensurate with sizable co-investments of public and private resources in developing human capital.

Joseph A. Schumpeter, capitalism, socialism, and democracy

This is a review of "Capitalism, socialism, and democracy", by Joseph A. Schumpeter, New York, Harper Perennial, 1942 (first Harper Colophon edition published 1975). "The public mind has by now so thoroughly grown out of humor with it as to make condemnation of capitalism and all its works a foregone conclusion – almost a requirement of the etiquette of discussion. Whatever his political preference, every writer or speaker hastens to conform to this code and to emphasize his critical attitude, his freedom from ‘complacency’, his belief in the inadequacies of capitalist achievement, his aversion to capitalist and his sympathy with anti-capitalist interests. Any other attitude is voted not only foolish but anti-social and is looked upon as an indication of immoral servitude." We might easily mistake this for a voice weary of contemplating the implications for neo-liberal nostrums of our current global financial crisis were it not for the rather formal, slightly arch, style and the gender exclusive language. It was in fact penned in the depths of World War II by Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter, who fell off the map only to re-emerge from the 1970s as oil shocks and stagflation in the west presaged the decline of the Keynesian settlement, as east Asian newly industrialising economies were modelling on his insistence that entrepreneurialism, access to credit and trade were the pillars of economic growth, and as innovation became more of a watchword for post-industrial economies in general. The second coming was perhaps affirmed when his work was dubbed by Forbes in 1983 – on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of both men – as of greater explanatory import than Keynes’. (And what of our present resurgent Keynesian moment?)...