Looking Backward

Looking Backward: 2000-1887

I shall only stop now to say that interest on investments was a species of tax in perpetuity upon the product of those engaged in industry which a person possessing or inheriting money was able to levy. It must not be supposed that an arrangement which seems so unnatural and preposterous according to modern notions was never criticized by your ancestors. It had been the effort of lawgivers and prophets from the earliest ages to abolish interest, or at least to limit it to the smallest possible rate. All these efforts had, however, failed, as they necessarily must so long as the ancient social organizations prevailed. At the time of which I write, the latter part of the nineteenth century, governments had generally given up trying to regulate the subject at all.

Book format	Hardcover
Fiction/nonfiction	Fiction
Genre	Literature & Fiction
Publication date	January, 2011
Pages	218
Subgenre	Fiction
Edition	Standard Edition
Publisher	Simon & Brown
Original languages	English
Language	fr
Digital reader format	Epub (Yes)
Assembled product height	9 in
Assembled product weight	1.08 lb
Bisac subject heading	Fiction