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Neither will Political Economy , the science which teaches how to advance to the utmost possible extent the production and general diffusion of the means of enjoyment , and so improve , as far as is practicable , the physical condition ...
Neither will Political Economy , the science which teaches how to advance to the utmost possible extent the production and general diffusion of the means of enjoyment , and so improve , as far as is practicable , the physical condition ...
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... and therefore a desirable object in the eyes of the political economist ; who , mindful of the true end of his science , looks to wealth only as a means of happiness , and declares against all such measures as , though tending to ...
... and therefore a desirable object in the eyes of the political economist ; who , mindful of the true end of his science , looks to wealth only as a means of happiness , and declares against all such measures as , though tending to ...
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subject of very considerable interest to the student of political economy , but would , if fully gone into , occupy a much larger space than can be afforded to it in this little volume . It well deserves , indeed , to form the exclusive ...
subject of very considerable interest to the student of political economy , but would , if fully gone into , occupy a much larger space than can be afforded to it in this little volume . It well deserves , indeed , to form the exclusive ...
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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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