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But in an advanced state of society , few things can be produced and prepared for consumption except by processes which require much timedays , months , often years — during which the labourers employed must be supplied with food ...
But in an advanced state of society , few things can be produced and prepared for consumption except by processes which require much timedays , months , often years — during which the labourers employed must be supplied with food ...
Page 154
The latter is defined to consist of such things as are continually going from and returning again to their owner , and afford a profit only on being parted with ; such is the money which a master keeps by him to pay his workmen ...
The latter is defined to consist of such things as are continually going from and returning again to their owner , and afford a profit only on being parted with ; such is the money which a master keeps by him to pay his workmen ...
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It is the production of these things , of secondary rather than of first - rate importance , that has been advanced by the spinning - jenny , the power - loom , the stocking - frame , and the other wonderful machinery which that ...
It is the production of these things , of secondary rather than of first - rate importance , that has been advanced by the spinning - jenny , the power - loom , the stocking - frame , and the other wonderful machinery which that ...
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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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