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Hence , improvements which save any part of the time necessarily consumed in the business of production , effect a material reduction in the cost of the produce , by lessening the amount of profit chargeable on the capital employed , as ...
Hence , improvements which save any part of the time necessarily consumed in the business of production , effect a material reduction in the cost of the produce , by lessening the amount of profit chargeable on the capital employed , as ...
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The English absentee landlord may be considered as feeding and employing , with the surplus produce of his estate ... If these were all fully fed and employed , no harm would result from the exportation of food : as is the case ...
The English absentee landlord may be considered as feeding and employing , with the surplus produce of his estate ... If these were all fully fed and employed , no harm would result from the exportation of food : as is the case ...
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Money , indeed , is only employed as a medium for the exchange of values , on the presumption of its remaining invariable in its value ; without which it cannot be a true measure of the value of the objects for which it is exchanged .
Money , indeed , is only employed as a medium for the exchange of values , on the presumption of its remaining invariable in its value ; without which it cannot be a true measure of the value of the objects for which it is exchanged .
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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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