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It is true that these same writers sometimes attempt to qualify their rule by admitting exceptions in the case of those commodities whose supply is limited by monopoly , or the exclusive facilities for their production possessed by some ...
It is true that these same writers sometimes attempt to qualify their rule by admitting exceptions in the case of those commodities whose supply is limited by monopoly , or the exclusive facilities for their production possessed by some ...
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Every improvement in the processes by which commodities of any kind are produced , contributes towards the great end of lessening the producing costs of commodities by the saving of time , capital , or labour .
Every improvement in the processes by which commodities of any kind are produced , contributes towards the great end of lessening the producing costs of commodities by the saving of time , capital , or labour .
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To be invariable in value is , therefore , to preserve the same relation to the mass of other commodities in general estimation ; and in order for any particular commodity to possess this quality , it must increase in quantity — or ...
To be invariable in value is , therefore , to preserve the same relation to the mass of other commodities in general estimation ; and in order for any particular commodity to possess this quality , it must increase in quantity — or ...
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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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