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But not only is forced labour less pleasurable than free , it is likewise incomparably less productive . All observation confirms what our instinctive sentiments will suggest , that to encourage a man ...
But not only is forced labour less pleasurable than free , it is likewise incomparably less productive . All observation confirms what our instinctive sentiments will suggest , that to encourage a man ...
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a the owner may realize or turn them again into money whenever he chooses ; but they fluctuate in value , and may sell therefore for more or less than was given for them . All bear the current interest on money , with a difference ...
a the owner may realize or turn them again into money whenever he chooses ; but they fluctuate in value , and may sell therefore for more or less than was given for them . All bear the current interest on money , with a difference ...
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He might , by such restrictions , be induced to prefer keeping it in a state of waste , as a park , chase , or warren , comparatively unproductive and unserviceable to society . If he continued to cultivate it , he would be less likely ...
He might , by such restrictions , be induced to prefer keeping it in a state of waste , as a park , chase , or warren , comparatively unproductive and unserviceable to society . If he continued to cultivate it , he would be less likely ...
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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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