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And for the reason , that as fresh capital is being continually accumulated from fresh savings , there will be a number of persons continually on the look - out for the means of employing their capital to the greatest advantage ; and if ...
And for the reason , that as fresh capital is being continually accumulated from fresh savings , there will be a number of persons continually on the look - out for the means of employing their capital to the greatest advantage ; and if ...
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... are continually occurring ; and a certain proportion of goods thus constantly find their way into the consumer's hands ... quantities of goods continue to be produced and sold for some time at a continual loss to their producers .
... are continually occurring ; and a certain proportion of goods thus constantly find their way into the consumer's hands ... quantities of goods continue to be produced and sold for some time at a continual loss to their producers .
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Why , have we not been continually taking fresh soils into cultivation in this island for the last eight or ten centuries ? And will any one deny that a quarter of corn can be raised now at less cost of labour and capital than in the ...
Why , have we not been continually taking fresh soils into cultivation in this island for the last eight or ten centuries ? And will any one deny that a quarter of corn can be raised now at less cost of labour and capital than in the ...
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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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