Chapter 18. Relatively Fixed and Relatively Increasable Forms of Capital

1. Why not raise seals in California and fruit in Alaska?

2. Has the rainfall any relation to the density of population?

3. Has the isothermal line any relation to the number of millionaires?

4. What physical reasons account for the greatness of ancient Egypt, of Venice, of Holland, of England, of the United States?

5. Is all land useful? Is all land wealth?

6 Is there a different term for land that is wealth and land that is not?

7. Are there different economic terms for hewn and unhewn blocks of stone? What makes the difference?

NOTE.--A meritorious though fragmentary essay to rethink the old conception of natural resources and to express them in new terms, is Natural Economy, by A. H. Gibson, 1901, reviewed by the writer in Journal of Political Economy, March, 1902.