“[The national economy is] a set of powers and ways used by a nation to keep and improve physical existence of its members… Moral good of a nation is a consequence of its education, and its physical good is a result of national economy.”

— Fryderyk Skarbek

Source: Dictionary of political economy, 1818, p. 159, as cited in: Zabieglik (2002).

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