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John Morley: Certainly a school of social economy that deals only with foreign exchanges and rent and values and the virtues of…

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Certainly a school of social economy that deals only with foreign exchanges and rent and values and the virtues of direct taxes and indirect, and draws the curtain around the question of population, must be a singularly shallow affair.
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John Morley

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Morley critiques a narrow view of social economy that ignores population issues.

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