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Such a trade is in the situation of one maintained only by a bounty , and the sooner it is stopped the better for the ... But the extraordinary circumstance of this impost is , that instead of going to maintain a fund for the relief of ...
Such a trade is in the situation of one maintained only by a bounty , and the sooner it is stopped the better for the ... But the extraordinary circumstance of this impost is , that instead of going to maintain a fund for the relief of ...
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It is neither just nor politic to tax property in this country , to maintain in idleness within their parishes a number of ... If they do not , such refusal must prove that they are yet capable of maintaining themselves in this country ...
It is neither just nor politic to tax property in this country , to maintain in idleness within their parishes a number of ... If they do not , such refusal must prove that they are yet capable of maintaining themselves in this country ...
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But even if this were found impracticable , it will always remain by far the cheapest mode of disposing of such supernumerary labourers , to undertake the expense of removing them at once , rather than to maintain them here in idleness ...
But even if this were found impracticable , it will always remain by far the cheapest mode of disposing of such supernumerary labourers , to undertake the expense of removing them at once , rather than to maintain them here in idleness ...
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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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