The Economic Review, Volume 6

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Oxford University Branch of the Christian Social Union, 1896
Includes section "Reviews".
 

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Página 157 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Página 423 - the health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Página 276 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as Little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Página 276 - Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.
Página 528 - Eventually, and in perhaps a less remote future, than may be supposed, we may, through the cooperative principle, see our way to a change in society, which would combine the freedom and independence of the individual, with the moral, intellectual, and economical advantages of aggregate production; and which, without violence or spoliation, or even any sudden disturbance of existing habits and expectations, would realize, at least in the industrial department, the best aspirations of the democratic...
Página 472 - To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set ; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade ; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy ; they have always had the power of doing these, they never will have power to do more.
Página 539 - Act, 1922, but does not include land occupied together with a house as a park, gardens (other than as aforesaid...
Página 242 - ... the Laws of Economics are statements of tendencies expressed in the indicative mood, and not ethical precepts in the imperative.
Página 427 - Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
Página 11 - How far should moral and religious considerations be admitted as coming within the purview of Political Economy ? ' and the doctrine now under exposition enables us to supply the answer. Moral and religious considerations are to be taken account of by the economist precisely in so far as they are found, in fact, to affect the conduct of men in the pursuit of wealth.

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