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Page 140
When an individual consumes a certain quantity of his stock with no other aiin or result than the gratification of himself or his friends , the mass of wealth is pro tanto ... What is consumed in this way is usually said to be expended ...
When an individual consumes a certain quantity of his stock with no other aiin or result than the gratification of himself or his friends , the mass of wealth is pro tanto ... What is consumed in this way is usually said to be expended ...
Page 155
155 kinds of capital which are rapidly circulated — that is , consumed and replaced within brief periods , as a year for example , from capital of a more durable nature . But it may be surmised that except in the time during which they ...
155 kinds of capital which are rapidly circulated — that is , consumed and replaced within brief periods , as a year for example , from capital of a more durable nature . But it may be surmised that except in the time during which they ...
Page 170
Few objects are either sold or consumed at the same time and place where they are created . Nearly all articles require both more or less of time and labour , not merely to grow , prepare , and put them in marketable condition ...
Few objects are either sold or consumed at the same time and place where they are created . Nearly all articles require both more or less of time and labour , not merely to grow , prepare , and put them in marketable condition ...
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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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