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What gives value in exchange to labour ? Only that no one will , under a free system , give his labour for nothing , and consequently those who require the labour of others must pay for it . But the same cause gives value to time .
What gives value in exchange to labour ? Only that no one will , under a free system , give his labour for nothing , and consequently those who require the labour of others must pay for it . But the same cause gives value to time .
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And to cal ] forth his full energies , he must have , not a mere temporary tenure of his allotment — but such a permanent hold of it , as will give him a complete conviction of the undisputed enjoyment of all its improved produce ...
And to cal ] forth his full energies , he must have , not a mere temporary tenure of his allotment — but such a permanent hold of it , as will give him a complete conviction of the undisputed enjoyment of all its improved produce ...
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To give an artificial preference to its production from our home soils is only to require its production by a greater sacrifice of the capital and labour of the community than would be sufficient to obtain it by importation .
To give an artificial preference to its production from our home soils is only to require its production by a greater sacrifice of the capital and labour of the community than would be sufficient to obtain it by importation .
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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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