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ANEXOS
Anexo 1
Examen para la beca de Joseph Hume
(1859)
(UCL, 1860-61: 65)
Primera parte del examen (10.00 a.m. a 1.00 p.m.)
Professor Walter Bagehot
1. State the nature of direct and indirect taxation respectively and explain
what you consider to be the advantages and disadvantages of each.
2. Explain the nature of stamp duties and state the principle by which you
think the amount of them should be regulated.
3. On whom does the burden of a tax which is imposed on the export of gold
by a gold mining country ultimately fall?

trade and a foreign trade.

6. State generally the nature of the Act (commonly called Sir. R. Peel’s) passed
in 1844 to regulate the English currency and explain concisely your reasons for
approving or disapproving of it.

trade and next the currency of a country?
      
causing the rate of interest in this country to very more frequently than it would
otherwise here done?
9. After the authorized infraction of the Act of 1844 in the autumn of 1857, it
was said by Lord Grey that this relaxation of the law had depreciated the currency,
 

10. What is the nature of the laws commonly called Usury Laws? And are they

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La segunda parte del examen (2.00 a 5.00 p.m.)
Professor Jacob Waley
1. State some of the fundamental propositions of Political Economy, with the
grounds on which they are admitted, and the reservations with which they must
be understood.
2. Distinguish between the modes in which capital and credit respectively con-
tribute to production.

          
marriage as the only means of averting the fate which impends over all commu-
nities. According to him, the production of food can never increase in the same
ratio as the birth of children, and a time must come in every country when pop-
ulation will outgrow subsistence, and the people become a race of degenerate,

Compare the above passage with the theory really maintained by Mr. Mal-
thus.
  
the cost of the article. If the work people have their bread cheap, that enables
the articles they manufacture to be produced cheaper If, on the other hand, they
must and will consume certain luxuries, and those luxuries are made dearer by

How far do you agree with the propositions laid down in this passage?
    
of skilled against unskilled labor; and any forced alteration of the wages of the

Explain and comment on this statement.
7. Had the demand for a diminution in the hours of labor without diminution
of wages been complied with, what would you expect to be the results as regards
the interests of masters and workmen in the building trade?
8. Show that where some of the lands of a country are tithable, and the re-
mainder are tithe free, a tithe-free farm commands a rent exceeding that of a
tithable farm, of like extent and quality, by more than the amount of the tithe.
 
credit, whatever medium (metal or paper) is employed? and whether gold he any
more than credit for so much power?

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and whether it’s true and just idea be not that of a ticket entitling to power,

What answers would you give to these questions?

Anexo 2
Examen para la beca Joseph Hume
(25 de noviembre de 1868)
(UCL, 1869-70: vi-vii)
La primera parte del examen (10.00 a.m. a 1.00 p.m.)
Professor Jacob Waley
Where the answer is matter of opinion, it should be accompanied by a state-
ment of reasons.

science, they got their theories out of the facts of trade, instead of attempting to

Examine the soundness of this assertion.
2. Explain to what extent capitalists and labourers have a common interest,
and to what extent their interests are opposed.
3. If you had to decide whether a demand for a rise of wages in a particu-
lar trade was well founded or not, what circumstances would you look to as the
grounds of your decision?
4. To what extent is the ordinary rate of interest on good securities a trust-

5. If during a certain period the population of a country doubled, while its
tillage improved so much that the same quantity of labor produced double the

  

7. A French writer ascribes the unusually large accumulation of gold in the Bank
    -

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