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It is quite evident that the cost of producing any article must in the long run determine its price ( or selling value . ) For unless a price can be abtained sufficient to cover this cost , no one will continue to produce it for sale at ...
It is quite evident that the cost of producing any article must in the long run determine its price ( or selling value . ) For unless a price can be abtained sufficient to cover this cost , no one will continue to produce it for sale at ...
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That science we defined as having for its object the study of the circumstances which determine the abundance and general distribution among the members of a society of the necessaries , comforts , and luxuries of life .
That science we defined as having for its object the study of the circumstances which determine the abundance and general distribution among the members of a society of the necessaries , comforts , and luxuries of life .
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What are the natural laws which determine the supply of food ? Is there any reason why its increase should present greater difficulties than that of other objects of desire ? Are there any artificial obstacles imposed by conventional ...
What are the natural laws which determine the supply of food ? Is there any reason why its increase should present greater difficulties than that of other objects of desire ? Are there any artificial obstacles imposed by conventional ...
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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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