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... character which the machine process gives it " 27 — though the predominance of the machine process is itself a dependent variable . Moreover , the " fabric of institutions intervenes be- tween the material exigencies of life and the ...
... character which the machine process gives it " 27 — though the predominance of the machine process is itself a dependent variable . Moreover , the " fabric of institutions intervenes be- tween the material exigencies of life and the ...
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Thorstein Veblen. a metaphysical character . It is something of a precon- ception , accepted uncritically , but applied in criticism . and demonstration of all else . . . " 36 Veblen was thus one of the earliest writers to concern ...
Thorstein Veblen. a metaphysical character . It is something of a precon- ception , accepted uncritically , but applied in criticism . and demonstration of all else . . . " 36 Veblen was thus one of the earliest writers to concern ...
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... character of his argu- ment . Of the " cumulative process of development , and its complex and unstable outcome , that are to be the economist's subject - matter , " he said67 What is objective and what is subjective ? What is a matter ...
... character of his argu- ment . Of the " cumulative process of development , and its complex and unstable outcome , that are to be the economist's subject - matter , " he said67 What is objective and what is subjective ? What is a matter ...
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... character ; that knowledge is inchoate action inchoately directed to an end ; that all knowledge is " functional " ; that it is of the nature of use . This , of course , is only a corollary under the main postulate of the latter - day ...
... character ; that knowledge is inchoate action inchoately directed to an end ; that all knowledge is " functional " ; that it is of the nature of use . This , of course , is only a corollary under the main postulate of the latter - day ...
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... character . But that is not all . The inhibitive nervous complication may also detach another chain of response . to the given stimulus , which does not spend itself in a line of motor conduct and does not fall into a system of uses ...
... character . But that is not all . The inhibitive nervous complication may also detach another chain of response . to the given stimulus , which does not spend itself in a line of motor conduct and does not fall into a system of uses ...
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Page 115 - 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.
Page 133 - The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
Page 66 - Happily, there is nothing in the laws of Value which remains for the present or any future writer to clear up; the theory of the subject is complete...
Page 115 - 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.
Page 204 - ... the value of a thing is just as much as it will bring...
Page 119 - This division of labour, from which so many advantages are derived, is not originally the effect of any human wisdom, which foresees and intends that general opulence to which it gives occasion. It is the necessary, though very slow and gradual, consequence of a certain propensity in human nature which has in view no such extensive utility; the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another.
Page 118 - When the price of any commodity is neither more nor less than what is sufficient to pay the rent of the land, the wages of the labour, and the profits of the stock employed in raising, preparing, and bringing it to market, according to their natural rates, the commodity is then sold for what may be called its natural price.
Page 129 - Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased...
Page 116 - ... led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it.
Page 74 - The hedonistic conception of man is that of a lightning calculator of pleasures and pains, who oscillates like a homogeneous globule of desire of happiness under the impulse of stimuli that shift him about the area, but leave him intact.