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The moment their supply falls short of the quantity required , —in other words , of the demand , or that it becomes necessary to take some trouble to obtain the quantity required , they acquire an exchangeable value .
The moment their supply falls short of the quantity required , —in other words , of the demand , or that it becomes necessary to take some trouble to obtain the quantity required , they acquire an exchangeable value .
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When a desirable commodity is to be obtained * Smith and his followers have insisted much on everything having a real value , which they define to consist of the quantity of labour required to produce it ; and they accordingly call ...
When a desirable commodity is to be obtained * Smith and his followers have insisted much on everything having a real value , which they define to consist of the quantity of labour required to produce it ; and they accordingly call ...
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167 in any quantity that can be required by a proportionate outlay of labour , like water from a wine than new ? - Why an acre of land at Battersea than one on Dartmoor , -- a diamond than a bit of glass , -an antique brass coin than a ...
167 in any quantity that can be required by a proportionate outlay of labour , like water from a wine than new ? - Why an acre of land at Battersea than one on Dartmoor , -- a diamond than a bit of glass , -an antique brass coin than 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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