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And this will increase in proportion to the talent , skill , and application of the labourer , or any other circumstances which may render his labour more productive than that of another . A man whose natural powers of body or mind ...
And this will increase in proportion to the talent , skill , and application of the labourer , or any other circumstances which may render his labour more productive than that of another . A man whose natural powers of body or mind ...
Page 141
We cannot acknowledge acquired skill , for instance , to be properly called capital , unless by metaphor . Otherwise , what is pure labour ? The mere brute force of man is rarely , if ever , exerted without some little skill to aid its ...
We cannot acknowledge acquired skill , for instance , to be properly called capital , unless by metaphor . Otherwise , what is pure labour ? The mere brute force of man is rarely , if ever , exerted without some little skill to aid its ...
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and labour of those who employ it ; —but it is equally true that their skill and labour would produce nothing , —nay , that they could not even maintain their existence , without the capital which they employ , and that by which they ...
and labour of those who employ it ; —but it is equally true that their skill and labour would produce nothing , —nay , that they could not even maintain their existence , without the capital which they employ , and that by which they ...
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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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