The cabinet was in the main made up of landlords, lawyers, hardened and convicted economists,—not economists like Mill, but men saturated with English ideas of contract, of competitive rent, of strict rule of supply and demand.
Morley describes the composition of the cabinet as being dominated by landlords and economists with narrow views, impacting their policies.
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