Josiah Stamp 
Wealth and Taxable Capacity [PDF ebook] 
Being the Newmarch Lectures for 1920-1 on Current Statistical Problems in Wealth and Industry

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Newspaper readers seemed to scent a new supply of powder and shot for current social polemics. In this respect many may have been disappointed. It is with some misgivings that the lectures are now given the permanence of book form, for While the principles have, so to speak, some enduring quality, and it is urgent that they should be better under stood, the grounds for more popular interest seem to lie in the illustrations of those principles expressed in current values, which are necessarily quite ephemeral.