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Economic policy

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actions that governments take in the economic field

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Under the influence of this desire, it shows mankind accumulating wealth, and employing that wealth in the production of other wealth; sanctioning by mutual agreement the institution of property; establishing laws to prevent individuals from encroaching upon the property of others by force or fraud; adopting various contrivances for increasing the productiveness of their labor; settling the division of the produce…
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
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Government, by establishing an administration under their own immediate inspection, of the same kind with that which the farmer establishes, might at least save this profit, which is almost always exorbitant.
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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This approximation is then to be corrected by making proper allowance for the effects of any impulses of a different description, which can be shown to interfere with the result in any particular case. Only in a few of the most striking cases (such as the important one of the principle of population) are these corrections interpolated into the expositions of Political Economy itself; the strictness of purely…
John Stuart Mill, Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy
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