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In this sense increase of wealth assuredly is no true measure of the increase of enjoyment ; and the science of wealth , if the attention be confined to the means of increasing its aggregate amount , may just as frequently lead to what ...
In this sense increase of wealth assuredly is no true measure of the increase of enjoyment ; and the science of wealth , if the attention be confined to the means of increasing its aggregate amount , may just as frequently lead to what ...
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And if this be true in the simplest cases , it is equally true of the more complicated ; which it would be still more impracticable for any foreign party to adjudicate . Custom will , indeed , establish a sort of standard by which these ...
And if this be true in the simplest cases , it is equally true of the more complicated ; which it would be still more impracticable for any foreign party to adjudicate . Custom will , indeed , establish a sort of standard by which these ...
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A little reflection will enable us easily to account for it . The true source of the peculiar veneration in which agriculture has been always held , lies in the consciousness that it is to this art man ...
A little reflection will enable us easily to account for it . The true source of the peculiar veneration in which agriculture has been always held , lies in the consciousness that it is to this art man ...
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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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