The Trend of EconomicsA.A. Knopf, 1924 - 556 páginas |
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... discuss these larger problems . Some preferred to develop the importance of their own corners of theory ; some ... discussions of ethics . Most of us have considered the chance that economics may become more or less " scientific . " Many ...
... discuss these larger problems . Some preferred to develop the importance of their own corners of theory ; some ... discussions of ethics . Most of us have considered the chance that economics may become more or less " scientific . " Many ...
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... discussions dull and the conclusions dubious . But if we come thinking of man's long struggle to master his own fate , then the effort to solve economic problems seems a vital episode in human his- tory , a hopeful portent for the ...
... discussions dull and the conclusions dubious . But if we come thinking of man's long struggle to master his own fate , then the effort to solve economic problems seems a vital episode in human his- tory , a hopeful portent for the ...
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... discussions of balked dispositions . They are at best a starting point for more serious work . And the economist has constructive work to do upon his aspect of behavior which the psychologist can but help him to set about in an ...
... discussions of balked dispositions . They are at best a starting point for more serious work . And the economist has constructive work to do upon his aspect of behavior which the psychologist can but help him to set about in an ...
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... discussion of many of the points raised . The main purpose in mind is to call atten- tion to the practical importance of certain problems which must be faced if economics is to secure a sound quantitative foundation . 2. THE STATISTICAL ...
... discussion of many of the points raised . The main purpose in mind is to call atten- tion to the practical importance of certain problems which must be faced if economics is to secure a sound quantitative foundation . 2. THE STATISTICAL ...
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... discussion of the statistical view of nature , particularly with reference to the character of natural laws : " The kind of fundamental assumption about the character of material laws on which scientists appear commonly to act , seems ...
... discussion of the statistical view of nature , particularly with reference to the character of natural laws : " The kind of fundamental assumption about the character of material laws on which scientists appear commonly to act , seems ...
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Página 106 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 156 - My desire to escape from trade, which I thought vicious and selfish, and to enter into the service of Science, which I imagined made its pursuers amiable and liberal, induced me at last to take the bold and simple step of writing to Sir H. Davy...
Página 437 - Subduct from any phenomenon such part as is known by previous inductions to be the effect of certain antecedents, and the residue of the phenomenon is the effect of the remaining antecedents.
Página 37 - I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.
Página 6 - The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
Página 106 - Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society.
Página 45 - I repeat that if a cause is an invariable and necessary condition of an event, we can never know certainly whether the cause exists or not. To us, then, a cause is not to be distinguished from the group of positive or negative conditions which, with more or less probability, precede an event.
Página 158 - Without thinking of the effect it might have upon distinguished men of science, or upon the minds of those who, stimulated to exertion, might become distinguished, I do think that a Government should for its own sake honour the men who do honour and service to the country. I refer now to honours only, not to beneficial rewards ; of such honours I think there are none. Knighthoods and baronetcies are sometimes conferred with such intentions, but I think them utterly unfit for that purpose. Instead...
Página 8 - Long indeed before this period, the very low rate of profits will have arrested all accumulation, and almost the whole produce of the country, after paying the labourers, will be the property of the owners of land and the receivers of tithes and taxes.
Página 160 - What is far more important, my love of natural science has been steady and ardent. This pure love has, however, been much aided by the ambition to be esteemed by my fellow naturalists.