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# Economic Prosperity Symptoms

## Definition

The observable indicators that a nation is economically thriving, including high wages of labour, increasing population, and the liberal reward of labour that encourages propagation and industry.

## Source Chapter

Book I, Chapter 8

## Context

Identified as the natural symptoms of increasing national wealth, contrasting with the symptoms of economic stagnation or decline.

## Economic Domain

General Theory

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