The Development of Economics, 1750-1900Macmillan, 1921 - 348 páginas |
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... common ground may be easily lost sight of ; and beyond that to show with some degree of definiteness how far economics even today rests on concepts worked out during the eighteenth century . To attain these two ends the writer has ...
... common ground may be easily lost sight of ; and beyond that to show with some degree of definiteness how far economics even today rests on concepts worked out during the eighteenth century . To attain these two ends the writer has ...
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... common sense have turned increas- ingly during the last century to this aspect of relativism . Not autocracy but democracy , i . e . , rights and duties properly related to common ends , not universalism but the territorial origin of ...
... common sense have turned increas- ingly during the last century to this aspect of relativism . Not autocracy but democracy , i . e . , rights and duties properly related to common ends , not universalism but the territorial origin of ...
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... common among philosophers when certain conditions have been fulfilled that do not prevail equally at all times . Constructive and destructive periods alternate . A criti- cal spirit arises when maladjustment of savants to their subject ...
... common among philosophers when certain conditions have been fulfilled that do not prevail equally at all times . Constructive and destructive periods alternate . A criti- cal spirit arises when maladjustment of savants to their subject ...
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... common rule of Good and Evil to be taken from the nature of the objects them- selves ; but from the person of the man , . or from an arbitrator or judge , whom men disagreeing shall by con- sent set up , and make his sentence the rule ...
... common rule of Good and Evil to be taken from the nature of the objects them- selves ; but from the person of the man , . or from an arbitrator or judge , whom men disagreeing shall by con- sent set up , and make his sentence the rule ...
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... common distinction betwixt moral and physical necessity is without any foundation in nature . " 16 Natural and social sciences move , in this sense , on one level . Causation becomes a purely conceptual thing , and mathematics similarly ...
... common distinction betwixt moral and physical necessity is without any foundation in nature . " 16 Natural and social sciences move , in this sense , on one level . Causation becomes a purely conceptual thing , and mathematics similarly ...
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The Development of Economics, 1750-1900 O. Fred (Oswald Fred) Boucke Sin vista previa disponible - 2012 |
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Página 202 - The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society — the real foundation, on which rise legal and political superstructures and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production in material life determines the general character of the social, political, and spiritual processes of life.
Página 32 - The original of them all, is that which we call SENSE, for there is no conception in a man's mind, which hath not at first, totally or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense.
Página 43 - For no man giveth, but with intention of good to himself; because gift is voluntary; and of all voluntary acts, the object is to every man his own good...
Página 111 - It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think; every effort we can make to throw off our subjection will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
Página 44 - For moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good and evil in the conversation and society of mankind. Good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men are different...
Página 111 - This firm foundation is that of the social feelings of mankind ; the desire to be in unity with our fellow-creatures, which is already a powerful principle in human nature, and happily one of those which tend to become stronger, even without express inculcation from the influences of advancing civilization.
Página 76 - They consume little more than the poor, and in spite of their natural selfishness and rapacity, though they mean only their own conveniency, though the sole end which they propose from the labours of all the thousands whom they employ, be the gratification of their own vain and insatiable desires, they divide with the poor the produce of all their improvements.
Página 111 - The produce of the earth — all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.
Página 35 - Secondly, The other fountain from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our own minds within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without...
Página 33 - From desire, ariseth the thought of some means we have seen produce the like of that which we aim at; and from the thought of that, the thought of means to that mean; and so continually, till we come to some beginning within our own power.