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But it is so perfectly obvious that one individual can never have acquired power over a numerous society except with the consent of the majority , — or , at least , of an overwhelming body of supporters , that the question of priority ...
But it is so perfectly obvious that one individual can never have acquired power over a numerous society except with the consent of the majority , — or , at least , of an overwhelming body of supporters , that the question of priority ...
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The value of any monopoly to its owner is measured by the superiority he enjoys over the least favourably situated of all his habitual competitors in the same market . These could not afford to continue supplying the market , for a ...
The value of any monopoly to its owner is measured by the superiority he enjoys over the least favourably situated of all his habitual competitors in the same market . These could not afford to continue supplying the market , for a ...
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A tax on income has the great advantage over all other taxes of making the absentee who consumes his income abroad on untaxed commodities , and the miser who hoards his income without spending it at all , contribute something at least ...
A tax on income has the great advantage over all other taxes of making the absentee who consumes his income abroad on untaxed commodities , and the miser who hoards his income without spending it at all , contribute something at least ...
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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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