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Page ture owing to the unnatural existing relations of population and subsistence 233 CHAPTER XI .-- POPULATION AND SUBSISTENCE . — History of the supply of Food to an increasing People . - Early limitation of the numbers and resources ...
Page ture owing to the unnatural existing relations of population and subsistence 233 CHAPTER XI .-- POPULATION AND SUBSISTENCE . — History of the supply of Food to an increasing People . - Early limitation of the numbers and resources ...
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population does not create a beneficial demand on the home grower , but just the contrary . It is a portion of his produce which he is by law compelled to give away for nothing . Were foreign corn freely imported in return for the ...
population does not create a beneficial demand on the home grower , but just the contrary . It is a portion of his produce which he is by law compelled to give away for nothing . Were foreign corn freely imported in return for the ...
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The truth is , we are at present stinting our population in the prime necessaries of life , and keeping down the wages of labour and the profits of capital in this country to the minimum level ...
The truth is , we are at present stinting our population in the prime necessaries of life , and keeping down the wages of labour and the profits of capital in this country to the minimum level ...
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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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