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For it may be made palpably manifest that these great and abiding principles , at the same time that they swell the amount of wealth , tend likewise to distribute it in the most equitable manner among the various classes of individuals ...
For it may be made palpably manifest that these great and abiding principles , at the same time that they swell the amount of wealth , tend likewise to distribute it in the most equitable manner among the various classes of individuals ...
Page 229
THE TRUE PRINCIPLE OF DISTRIBUTION . 229 interest , or rent , destroys the only criterion of their just amount , and substitutes a blind and arbitrary power , without any possible clue to guide it to a correct decision .
THE TRUE PRINCIPLE OF DISTRIBUTION . 229 interest , or rent , destroys the only criterion of their just amount , and substitutes a blind and arbitrary power , without any possible clue to guide it to a correct decision .
Page 315
... the enormous abuses that would unquestionably arise in the discretionary distribution of a sum of seven or eight millions of public money by any authorities that could be appointed for the purpose . If the present mode of distribution.
... the enormous abuses that would unquestionably arise in the discretionary distribution of a sum of seven or eight millions of public money by any authorities that could be appointed for the purpose . If the present mode of distribution.
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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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