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Government has been called a necessary evil . Expensive , unjust , and tyrannical governments are evils unquestionably of the most severe kind , since they entail a train of unnecessary sufferings on those who are subjected to them ...
Government has been called a necessary evil . Expensive , unjust , and tyrannical governments are evils unquestionably of the most severe kind , since they entail a train of unnecessary sufferings on those who are subjected to them ...
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But what we maintain is , that this evil has ever and everywhere been the consequence of the folly or criminality of man , of his ... But these evils have never been occasioned by the tendency of population to press against the means of ...
But what we maintain is , that this evil has ever and everywhere been the consequence of the folly or criminality of man , of his ... But these evils have never been occasioned by the tendency of population to press against the means of ...
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The evils now so generally and justly complained against were unlieard of until within the last few years . Their appearance has been coincident in time with a fundamental change in the administration of the law , —the introduction of a ...
The evils now so generally and justly complained against were unlieard of until within the last few years . Their appearance has been coincident in time with a fundamental change in the administration of the law , —the introduction of a ...
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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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