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It is quite clear that if the owner of capital is not allowed to make what profit he can upon it by lending it to others , no one will accumulate more capital than he can use himself , and nearly all savings would thenceforward be ...
It is quite clear that if the owner of capital is not allowed to make what profit he can upon it by lending it to others , no one will accumulate more capital than he can use himself , and nearly all savings would thenceforward be ...
Page 177
The owners of most mines , fisheries , forests , & c . , enjoy a similar advantage of monopoly . ... afford the largest returns to their owner , after replacing the capital and paying the labour employed in working them .
The owners of most mines , fisheries , forests , & c . , enjoy a similar advantage of monopoly . ... afford the largest returns to their owner , after replacing the capital and paying the labour employed in working them .
Page 178
Some of these advantages may even be , and are occasionally , let out by their owners to other parties at a rent . The value of any monopoly to its owner is measured by the superiority he enjoys over the least favourably situated of all ...
Some of these advantages may even be , and are occasionally , let out by their owners to other parties at a rent . The value of any monopoly to its owner is measured by the superiority he enjoys over the least favourably situated of all ...
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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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