- Corn, a variable standard for determining the varying value of things, 7-12. Effects of the price of, on rent, 67-70. Corn-rents materially affected by tithes, 227. Advantage resulting from the relatively low price of corn, 373. Bounties on the exportation of it, lower its price to the foreign consumer, 417-427. Effects of a bounty in raising the price of corn, 428. A bounty on the production of, productive of no real effect on the annual produce of the land and labour of the country, 449-455. The price of corn enhanced by a tax on it, in order to afford a fund for a bounty on the production of commodities, 456, 457. Benefit of a high price of corn to landlords, 474, 475. Investigation of the comparative value of corn, gold, and labour, in rich and in poor countries, 527-537. The production of corn encouraged by alteration in its market price, 574, 575. A fall in the value of corn beneficial to the stockholder, 586.
- Cultivation, not discouraged by a tax on land and its produce, 238.
- Currency. See Gold and Silver, Paper Currency.
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