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The people of a country are its consumers. They also provide the labour force for production. A study of the population of the UK, therefore, will give us a bird’s-eye view of the community for which the economic system must provide, and also of the size and nature of the available labour force.
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© 1991 J. Harvey
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Harvey, J. (1991). The Population as Consumers and Producers. In: Intermediate Economics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21228-6_3
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