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and poverty in the present and past; and the ground of whatever
increase in wealth is reserved for the future。
Unlike the laws of Production; those of Distribution are
partly of human institution: since the manner in which wealth is
distributed in any given society; depends on the statutes or
usages therein obtaining。 But though governments or nations have
the power of deciding what institutions shall exist; they cannot
arbitrarily determine how those institutions shall work。 The
conditions on which the power they possess over the distribution
of wealth is dependent; and the manner in which the distribution
is effected by the various modes of conduct which society may
think fit to adopt; are as much a subject for scientific enquiry
as any of the physical laws of nature。
The laws of Production and Distribution; and some of the
practical consequences deducible from them; are the subject of
the following treatise。