1.5. Cities
Property owners who live far from their lands experience a reduction in income proportional to the cost of transporting their production to market.
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1.10. The Price and Intrinsic Value of a Thing, in General, is the Measurement of the Land and Labor, which enter into its Production
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1.15. The Increase and Decrease of the Number of People in a State chiefly Depends on the Taste, the Fashions, and the Ways of Life of the Property Owners
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2.3. The Circulation of Money
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1.3. Villages
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1.8. Some Artisans Earn More, Others Less, According to the Different Cases and Circumstances
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