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41 on national happiness . Again , it has been called the science of the happiness of states ; ' but this would extend it over too wide a field . Its true subject of inquiry is , we think , the happiness of societies so far as it ...
41 on national happiness . Again , it has been called the science of the happiness of states ; ' but this would extend it over too wide a field . Its true subject of inquiry is , we think , the happiness of societies so far as it ...
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If , as we think will hardly be denied , these views are correct , we arrive through them at something like a general principle as to the fundamental conditions essential to the general happiness ;namely , that the labour , which we ...
If , as we think will hardly be denied , these views are correct , we arrive through them at something like a general principle as to the fundamental conditions essential to the general happiness ;namely , that the labour , which we ...
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able wealth in the world ; but will any one recommend it as a means of augmenting the mass of human happiness ? No ! wealth may be purchased at too high a price , if that price be the degradation and suffering of those who produce it .
able wealth in the world ; but will any one recommend it as a means of augmenting the mass of human happiness ? No ! wealth may be purchased at too high a price , if that price be the degradation and suffering of those who produce it .
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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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