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PREFACE . xvii ment at the command of every individual , how- . ever rapid the growth of numbers , than that societies should exert , in the prosecution of their collective interests , and the enlargement of their collective resources ...
PREFACE . xvii ment at the command of every individual , how- . ever rapid the growth of numbers , than that societies should exert , in the prosecution of their collective interests , and the enlargement of their collective resources ...
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The inference we deduce from this position is , that the first economical object with every govern , ment ought to be the securing to every individual member of the community it regulates , the means of comfortable subsistence in return ...
The inference we deduce from this position is , that the first economical object with every govern , ment ought to be the securing to every individual member of the community it regulates , the means of comfortable subsistence in return ...
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But when freedom is afforded to the employ . ment of capital , and security to the enjoyment of its returns -- when no impediment is offered by mistaken legislation , grasping tyranny , or vulgar prejudice , to the voluntary and ...
But when freedom is afforded to the employ . ment of capital , and security to the enjoyment of its returns -- when no impediment is offered by mistaken legislation , grasping tyranny , or vulgar prejudice , to the voluntary and ...
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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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