Principles of Political Economy, Deduced from the Natural Laws of Social Welfare, and Applied to the Present State of Britain.

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The geologist and political economist George Julius Poulett Scrope (1797-1876) was ‘a vehement critic of the poor laws and of Malthusian doctrines. In his Principles of Political Economy (1833), his most substantial publication on such issues, he argued that the proper aim of the economist was to promote social welfare, using the generation of wealth as a means to that end. He advocated emigration to the colonies as the best solution to the problems of poverty and over-population; indeed he was criticised for treating emigration as a panacea for all social ills’ (ODNB).

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