Principles of political economy, deduced from the natural laws of social welfare, and applied to the present state of BritainLongman, 1833 - 457 pages |
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Page vii
... true interests of society . The progress of popular education has already infused a mind into masses heretofore but passive instruments in the hands of those who were the exclusive possessors of knowledge . The people now read ; the ...
... true interests of society . The progress of popular education has already infused a mind into masses heretofore but passive instruments in the hands of those who were the exclusive possessors of knowledge . The people now read ; the ...
Page xiii
... these elements of general improvement , neutralizes their beneficial qua- lities , and hinders them from combining , as might be expected , to work out a general and uniform advance in happiness . Wealth , it is true.
... these elements of general improvement , neutralizes their beneficial qua- lities , and hinders them from combining , as might be expected , to work out a general and uniform advance in happiness . Wealth , it is true.
Page xiv
George Poulett Scrope. uniform advance in happiness . Wealth , it is true , has increased in certain quarters ; but poverty , on the other hand , has increased likewise , or , at least , has not proportionately diminished . There is ...
George Poulett Scrope. uniform advance in happiness . Wealth , it is true , has increased in certain quarters ; but poverty , on the other hand , has increased likewise , or , at least , has not proportionately diminished . There is ...
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... true principles of economical policy ; to the blun- dering stupidity of power , rather than to its knavery and wickedness , that we must trace the defective arrangements , and consequently imper- fect operation of the mechanism of most ...
... true principles of economical policy ; to the blun- dering stupidity of power , rather than to its knavery and wickedness , that we must trace the defective arrangements , and consequently imper- fect operation of the mechanism of most ...
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... True direction of prudence to the Increase of Food and Wealth , not the limitation of numbers and happiness CHAPTER XII . - CAUSES OF POVERTY . - Mismanagement of resources . Faulty Institutions . - Economical struc- ture and habits of ...
... True direction of prudence to the Increase of Food and Wealth , not the limitation of numbers and happiness CHAPTER XII . - CAUSES OF POVERTY . - Mismanagement of resources . Faulty Institutions . - Economical struc- ture and habits of ...
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accumulated Adam Smith advantages afford agriculture amount arts benefit capital circulating circumstances comforts commerce commodities condition consequently consumed continually corn CORN-LAWS cost cultivation demand division of labour duce duction duties effect employed employment enjoyment equally evils exchange exclusive exertions existence expense extent favourable fertility foreign greater happiness human improvement increase individual industry injury interest invested Ireland labouring class land landlord less likewise limited machinery manufactures ment MIXED MATHEMATICS mode monopoly moral natural justice natural laws natural right necessary numbers object obtain occupation owner parishes parties perhaps persons Political Economy poor poor-law poor-rate population portion possession present principle procure production profit proportion proportionate purchase quantity raw produce rent skill society soil sumers supply surplus surplus labour taxation things tion tithe tivation trade value of money villeins wages wealth