Harold J. Laski: “The whole productive scheme is thereby tilted to the favour of those…”

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The whole productive scheme is thereby tilted to the favour of those who possess the power to make their wants effective.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski asserts that the economic system favors those with power, skewing production towards their interests.

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