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All saleable property , or wealth , therefore , is the produce of trouble or labour . And in order to avoid confusion , it is desirable to confine this term labour , to such exertion as is productive of wealth . Men exert themselves for ...
All saleable property , or wealth , therefore , is the produce of trouble or labour . And in order to avoid confusion , it is desirable to confine this term labour , to such exertion as is productive of wealth . Men exert themselves for ...
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When a desirable commodity is to be obtained * Smith and his followers have insisted much on everything having a real value , which they define to consist of the quantity of labour required to produce it ; and they accordingly call ...
When a desirable commodity is to be obtained * Smith and his followers have insisted much on everything having a real value , which they define to consist of the quantity of labour required to produce it ; and they accordingly call ...
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The majority of political economists , in pursuance of the fallacy already exposed of identifying value with labour , resolve cost of production into the quantity of labour only , required for producing the article .
The majority of political economists , in pursuance of the fallacy already exposed of identifying value with labour , resolve cost of production into the quantity of labour only , required for producing the article .
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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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