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16
Civil I
1. Political Economy, or rather Political Economy
and Finance. Proposed reform: abolition of useless
and expensive encouragements given under the notion of a benefit to
.
Every encouragement bestowed upon this or that
particular branch of trade with the sole view of
the benefit to trade [and which is not necessarily then employed
in the provisionment of national subsistence, or profitably
employed in the advancement business of national defense] is
so much money or moneys worth thrown away. For as
the quantity of trade in every nation during any a given
period I mean the quantity of growing wealth produced
during in the course of that period depends upon the quantity of [land,]
stock [and labour] employed in the production of it during
that period, and no encouragement that can be given
can add to the sum of any one of these three con
efficient causes or instruments of growing wealth,
whatever an is given in the way of encouragement
In one branch of trade, to one species of production course of conveyance or exchange is
so much taken away from all the rest. You can no
more increase the sum of wealth by any such means,
than you can increase the quantity of weight in a scale,
by taking a weights from one part of the scale, and putting
them onto another part of the same scale.
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