The Development of Economics, 1750-1900Macmillan, 1921 - 348 páginas |
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... writer has ignored some material that should properly have a place in a more comprehensive survey . He has decided to depart from custom and to treat , not individual writers or small groups of them , but only those currents of thought ...
... writer has ignored some material that should properly have a place in a more comprehensive survey . He has decided to depart from custom and to treat , not individual writers or small groups of them , but only those currents of thought ...
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... writer begs leave to add that this review was originally undertaken preparatory to a critical estimate of present economic theories , of their characteristics and possible development - an estimate that he expects to complete in the ...
... writer begs leave to add that this review was originally undertaken preparatory to a critical estimate of present economic theories , of their characteristics and possible development - an estimate that he expects to complete in the ...
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... writers Plato most enjoyed the esteem of the hierarchy until the twelfth century . After that Aristotle gained favor with the clergy , and even more with many of the secular students who now congregated around universities or pursued ...
... writers Plato most enjoyed the esteem of the hierarchy until the twelfth century . After that Aristotle gained favor with the clergy , and even more with many of the secular students who now congregated around universities or pursued ...
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... writer seems to be a justifi- cation of the existing juridical machinery . Finally , in the fourth Book , the argument is concluded with a sum- mary treatment of the principles of jurisprudence , the underlying theory making political ...
... writer seems to be a justifi- cation of the existing juridical machinery . Finally , in the fourth Book , the argument is concluded with a sum- mary treatment of the principles of jurisprudence , the underlying theory making political ...
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... writers , there being a natural line of division between empiricists proper and intuitionists who believed in an innate sense of right and wrong ; but be- yond that distinctions involve considerable attention to details . Whether a ...
... writers , there being a natural line of division between empiricists proper and intuitionists who believed in an innate sense of right and wrong ; but be- yond that distinctions involve considerable attention to details . Whether a ...
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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 63 - 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 69 - 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 47 - 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.