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... not simply to obtain the greatest possible production of wealth , but to obtain it in such a shape , and by such means , as will distribute the greatest possible share of it among the greatest number of people -- so as to afford to ...
... not simply to obtain the greatest possible production of wealth , but to obtain it in such a shape , and by such means , as will distribute the greatest possible share of it among the greatest number of people -- so as to afford to ...
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... either the mechanical arts or the sound and liberal policy of governments could afford to human labour , we have long regarded as a position , founded both on the widest possible experience and the clearest possible demonstration .
... either the mechanical arts or the sound and liberal policy of governments could afford to human labour , we have long regarded as a position , founded both on the widest possible experience and the clearest possible demonstration .
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All their interest lies in procuring the greatest possible quantity of it at the least expense of their labour and capital . To give an artificial preference to its production from our home soils is only to require its production by a ...
All their interest lies in procuring the greatest possible quantity of it at the least expense of their labour and capital . To give an artificial preference to its production from our home soils is only to require its production by a ...
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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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