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Page iii
... amount produced . On this last branch of the subject , much knowledge has been accumu- lated , and principles have been established , import- ant both for theoretical and practical purposes , how- ever difficult the application of them ...
... amount produced . On this last branch of the subject , much knowledge has been accumu- lated , and principles have been established , import- ant both for theoretical and practical purposes , how- ever difficult the application of them ...
Page iv
... amount of wages , and the rate of profits , are determined by causes which keep them beyond the reach of change , and preserve them untouched amidst the workings of any possible scheme of taxation . Mixed with some absurdities , and ...
... amount of wages , and the rate of profits , are determined by causes which keep them beyond the reach of change , and preserve them untouched amidst the workings of any possible scheme of taxation . Mixed with some absurdities , and ...
Page vii
... amount of the revenue derived from land at all places , and under all circumstances ; and not content with this , pro- ceeded from the same narrow and limited data , to construct a general system of the distribution of wealth , and to ...
... amount of the revenue derived from land at all places , and under all circumstances ; and not content with this , pro- ceeded from the same narrow and limited data , to construct a general system of the distribution of wealth , and to ...
Page viii
... amount of subsistence consumed by the great mass of every community ; or in other words , its rate of wages . But to create and to perfect such an important department of human knowledge , was hardly likely to be the lot of one man ...
... amount of subsistence consumed by the great mass of every community ; or in other words , its rate of wages . But to create and to perfect such an important department of human knowledge , was hardly likely to be the lot of one man ...
Page ix
... amount of . influence on the progress of the numbers of nations , which might in practice be expected to be exercised by moral causes acting in opposition to the physical propen- sities of mankind . It is the perilous privilege of ...
... amount of . influence on the progress of the numbers of nations , which might in practice be expected to be exercised by moral causes acting in opposition to the physical propen- sities of mankind . It is the perilous privilege of ...
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