Principles of Political Economy, Volumen1

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H. Holt, 1878

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How Capital originates
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46 Productive Coöperation of the Three Factors
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The Three Great Periods of a Nations Economy
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Critical History of the Idea of Productiveness
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INTRODUCTION
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The Same Subject continued
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CHAPTER I
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Idea of Productiveness
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The Same Subject continued
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Economic Goods
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The Degree of Productiveness
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Three Classes of Goods
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Its Extent at Different Periods
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Advantages of the Division of Labor
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Conditions of the Division of Labor
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Influence of the Extent of the Market on the Division of Labor
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Means of Increasing the Division of Labor
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Dark Side of the Division of Labor
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Economic ValueValue in Use 5 Value in Exchange Free Goods 6 Alleged Contradiction between Value in Use and Value in Exchange
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Resources or Means
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Valuation of Resources 9 Wealth
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THEORY OF POPULATION
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Signs of National Wealth
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Economy Husbandry
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Grades of Economy in Common
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Socialism and Communism
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Socialism and Communism continued
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Socialism and Communism continued
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Community of Goods
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Organization of Labor
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Organization of Labor continued
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Political Economy Idea of an Organism 14 Origin of a Nations Economy
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Diseases of the Social Organism
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POSITION OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE CIRCLE OF RELATED SCIENCES 16 Political or National Economy
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Landed Property continued
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Credit in General
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Effects of Credit
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Sciences relating to National LifeThe Science of Public EconomyThe Science of Finance
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History of Credit Laws
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Statistics
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Private EconomyCameralistic Science
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Private Economy continued
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What Political Economy treats
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CHAPTER III
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Demand Indispensable Goods
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Influence of Purchasers Solvability on Prices
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Supply
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The Idealistic Method
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The Idealistic Method continued 25 The Idealistic Method continued
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Effect of a Rise in Price much above Cost
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Effect of a Decline in Price below Cost
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Different Costs of Production of the same Goods The Same Subject continued
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The Historical Method The Anatomy and Physiology of National Economy
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Advantages of the Historical or Physiological Method
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Advantages of the Historical Method
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Prices Fixed by Government
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Practical Character of the Historical Method
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CHAPTER III
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BOOK I
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Different Kinds of Money
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30 Meaning of Production CHAPTER I
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31 Factors of ProductionExternal Nature
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The Sea Climate
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Value in Use and Value in Exchange of Money Value in Exchange of Money
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Quantity of Money a Nation Needs
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Same Subject continued Barter
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Uniformity of the Value in Exchange of the Precious Metals
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Gifts of Nature with Value in Excnange
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127 Measure of Prices
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External Nature continued
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The Precious Metals the Best Measure of Prices
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History of the Prices of the Chief Wants of Life
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The Same Subject continued
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The Same Subject continued
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Elements of Agricultural Productiveness 36 Further Divisions of Natures Gifts
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The Same Subject continued
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Geographical Character of a Country
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Labor Classes of Labor
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Taste for Labor PieceWages
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Receipts Income Product
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Labor Power of Individuals 41 Esteem in which Labor is held
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Influence of Advancing Civilization on Rent
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Influence of Improvements in the Art of Agriculture on Rent
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History of Rent in Periods of Decline
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Rent and the General Good
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CHAPTER III
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Minimum of Wages
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Cost of Production of Labor
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CHAPTER II
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The Coöperation of Labor
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The Demand for Labor
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Price of Common Labor
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Difference of Wages in different Branches of Labor
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The Same Subject continued
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Effect of the Disagreeableness of certain Classes of Labor
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Guaranty of Minimum of Wages
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179 Rate of Interest in General
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Level of the Rate of Interest
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Causes of Different Rates of Interest
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Variations of the Rate of Discount
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Effect of Increased Demand for Loans
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History of the Rate of Interest
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RENT OF LAND
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Causes of a High Rate in Thriving Commercial Nations
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Emigration of Capital VOL I
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Effect of a Low Rate on Stationary Nations
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InterestPolicy Legitimateness of Interest
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Aversion to Interest
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InterestPolicy The Canon Law
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Interest Policy Government Interference Fixed Rates
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Efforts to avoid the Evil Effects of a Fixed Rate of Interest
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Repeal of the Usury Laws
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195 The Reward of Enterprise
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Circumstances on which the Undertakers Profit Depends 196a Having the Lead
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CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE THREE BRANCHES OF INCOME 197 Influence of the Branches of Income on the Price of Com modities
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Remedy in Case One Factor of Production has become dearer
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Influence of Foreign Trade
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Influence of the Branches of Income on the Price of Com modities
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Harmony of the Three Branches of Income Individual Differences in them
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Necessity of the Feeling of a Common Interest
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203 Effect of an Equal Division of the National Income
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Principle of Stability or of the Continuity of Work
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Healthy Distribution of the National Income
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Advantages of Large Enterprises
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CHAPTER IV
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Notional Consumption
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Consumption the Work of Nature
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Necessity of Considering what is really Consumed
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Production Impossible without Consumption
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The Want of Freedom 70 Emancipation
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Equilibrium between Production and Consumption
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Causes of an Increase of Production
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Necessity of the Proper Simultaneous Development of Pro duction and Consumption
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Disadvantages of Slavery
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The Same Subject continued
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Prodigality and Frugality
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Effect of an Advance in Civilization on Slavery
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The Same Subject continued 74 The Same Subject continued 75 The Same Subject continued
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When Saving is Injurious Limits to the Saving of Capital
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Spendthrift Nations
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The Most Detrimental Kind of Extravagance
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224 Luxury in General
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History of LuxuryIn the Middle Ages
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Luxury of Barbarous Times
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Influence of the Church and the City
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Luxury in Flourishing Times
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The Domestic Servant System
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Condition Precedent of this Luxury
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When the Effects of Luxury are Favorable
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Character of Luxury in Declining Nations
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LuxuryPolicy
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History of Sumptuary Laws
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Difficulty of Enforcing Sumptuary Laws
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Expediency of Sumptuary Laws
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237 Insurance in General 237 a Mutual and Speculative Institutions Economic Advantages of Insurance Fire Insurance 237 b 237 c 237 d Requisites ...
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Increase of Population in General
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Limits to the Increase of Population
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Influence of an Increase of the Means of Subsistence
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Effect of Wars on Population
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Tendencies counter to the Increase of Population
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Opponents of Malthus
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History of Population in Barbarous Times
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Community of Wives Polygamy
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History of Population in highly Civilized Times
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The Same Subject continued
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The Same Subject continued
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History of Population in Periods of Decline
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Influence of the Sacredness of Marriage on Population
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Polygamy Exposure of Children
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Positive Decrease of Population
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PopulationPolicyOverpopulation
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The Ideal of Population
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Means of Promoting Fopulation
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Immigration
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Influence of Hygienic Police
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Means of Checking Population Placing Impediments in the way of Marriage
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Emigration
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Colonizing Emigration
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State aid to Emigration
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Emigration and Pauperism 262 a Temporary Emigration
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Letters of Respite
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BOOK II
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CHAPTER I
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Rapidity of Circulation
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Freedom of Competition
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How Goods are Paid
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Freedom of Competition and International Trade
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CHAPTER II
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Effects of the Struggle of Opposing Interests on Price
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Theory of Rent
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Página 236 - Freedom, according to my conception of it, consists in the safe and sacred possession of a man's property, governed by laws defined and certain, with many personal privileges, natural, civil, and religious, which he cannot surrender without ruin to himself, and of which to be deprived by any other power is despotism.
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