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The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent;…

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To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most…
But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred…
With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that…
We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the…
The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be…
One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere…
The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal…
The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial…
Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one…
Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by…
That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as…

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