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Contract 5
To farm any considerable branch of the publick
revenue requires either a great capital or a great
credit; circumstances which would alone restrain the
competition for such an undertaking to a very small
number of people. Of the
Which neats has neated most? – Contract management or
Board management. The This is a plain matter question
of fact. Dr Smith answers it by argument. The
accounts if he had looked at them would To
determine it instead of looking into the accounts he
goes into argument. The battle is either won or
lost: to know which, instead of taking up the
gazette, he finds it out by demonstration from
the relative forces and situations before the battle onset.
In the hands of government, a tax has produced
£150,000. A Contractor offers £200,000 for it, pays
it and gets a fortune by it. Then comes a
philosopher, spins theories and proves from them
that it can not be. To conciliate the matter and
make philosophy odious comes your some practical man
some talker of nonsense, and tells you that what
the philosopher says is right in theory but wrong in
practice.
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panopticon; rationale of reward |
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contract |
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text sheet |
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d5 / d6 / d7 / d8 |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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arthur young |
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