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... reach the means of comfortable subsistence enjoys as fair a chance of happiness as those who occupy stations in the common opinion of the world more enviable , it is very clear that less than this will not afford the same chance .
... reach the means of comfortable subsistence enjoys as fair a chance of happiness as those who occupy stations in the common opinion of the world more enviable , it is very clear that less than this will not afford the same chance .
Page 177
Those which are naturally most prolific , or best situated for supplying the principal markets , afford the largest returns to their owner , after replacing the capital and paying the labour employed in working them .
Those which are naturally most prolific , or best situated for supplying the principal markets , afford the largest returns to their owner , after replacing the capital and paying the labour employed in working them .
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These could not afford to continue supplying the market , for a permanence , unless they obtained the average return ; that is , as high a return for their capital or ability in that , as they could obtain in any other employment .
These could not afford to continue supplying the market , for a permanence , unless they obtained the average return ; that is , as high a return for their capital or ability in that , as they could obtain in any other employment .
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Contents
PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE On the Coincidence of | 1 |
Duty of a Government the securing | 28 |
PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY DEDUCED | 40 |
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| Title | Principles of Political Economy: Deduced from the Natural Laws of Social Welfare and Applied to the Present State of Britain Reprints of economic classics |
| Author | George Poulett Scrope |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | A. M. Kelley, 1969 |
| ISBN | 067800563X, 9780678005637 |
| Length | 457 pages |
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