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6 Definition of Wealth and of Labour . - All Labour productive .-- Labour rather a pleasure than a sucrifce --- must , however , be free -- and sufficiently remunerated . - Minimum of sufficient remuneration.- Wealth no certain measure ...
6 Definition of Wealth and of Labour . - All Labour productive .-- Labour rather a pleasure than a sucrifce --- must , however , be free -- and sufficiently remunerated . - Minimum of sufficient remuneration.- Wealth no certain measure ...
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Mr. Malthus excludes them from the category of wealth , on the ground that they are immaterial . Inasmuch as they are habitually bought and sold , I should consider them comprehended in the definition of wealth given above .
Mr. Malthus excludes them from the category of wealth , on the ground that they are immaterial . Inasmuch as they are habitually bought and sold , I should consider them comprehended in the definition of wealth given above .
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able wealth in the world ; but will any one recommend it as a means of augmenting the mass of human happiness ? No ! wealth may be purchased at too high a price , if that price be the degradation and suffering of those who produce it .
able wealth in the world ; but will any one recommend it as a means of augmenting the mass of human happiness ? No ! wealth may be purchased at too high a price , if that price be the degradation and suffering of those who produce it .
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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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