Principles of Political Economy with Applications to Social Philosophy (1848) - Page 19


§ 1.	Doctrine of Protection to Native Industry	486
2.	Usury Laws Usury Laws: Laws that regulate or limit the interest rates that can be charged on loans.	496
3.	Attempts to regulate the prices of commodities	502
4.	Monopolies	504
5.	Laws against combination of workmen	506
6.	Restraints on opinion or on its publication	510


§ 1.	Governmental intervention distinguished into authoritative and unauthoritative	512
2.	Objections to government intervention—the compulsory character of the intervention itself, or of the levy of funds to support it	514
3.	— increase of the power and influence of government	516
4.	— increase of the occupations and responsibilities of government	517
5.	— superior efficiency of private agency, owing to stronger interest in the work	519
6.	— importance of cultivating habits of collective action in the people	521
7.	Laissez-faire, the general rule	524
8.	— but liable to large exceptions. Cases in which the consumer is an incompetent judge of the commodity. Education	528
9.	Case of persons exercising power over others. Protection of children and young persons; of the lower animals. Case of women not analogous	532
10.	Case of contracts in perpetuity	536
11.	Cases of delegated management	537
12.	Cases in which public intervention may be necessary to give effect to the wishes of the persons interested. Examples; hours of labor; disposal of colonial lands	540
13.	Case of acts done for the benefit of others than the persons concerned. Poor Laws	545
14.	Colonization	549
15.	Other miscellaneous examples	555
16.	Government intervention may be necessary in default of private agency, in cases where private agency would be more suitable	557