 | English literature - 1848 - 594 pages
...nature, but only so far as they depend upon a certain portion of those laws. It is concerned with man solely as a being who desires to possess wealth ;...capable of judging of the comparative efficacy of means for obtaining that end. It predicts only such of the phenomena of the social state as take place in... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1905 - 662 pages
...perhaps the most brilliant writer of his age, informed us that "political economy is concerned with man solely as a being who desires to possess wealth, and...capable of judging of the comparative efficacy of means to that end. It makes entire abstraction of every other human passion or motive, except those which... | |
 | Friedrich List - Economics - 1856 - 524 pages
..." It does not treat of the whole of man's nature as modified by the social state, nor of the whole conduct of man in society. It is concerned with him...capable of judging of the comparative efficacy of means for obtaining that end." After remarking at some length on the mixed motives which govern men in the... | |
 | Georg Friedrich List - 1856 - 528 pages
..." It does not treat of the whole of man's nature as modified by the social state, nor of the whole conduct of man in society. It is concerned with him...capable of judging of the comparative efficacy of means for obtaining that end." After remarking at some length on the mixed motives which govern men in the... | |
 | Stephen Colwell - 1867 - 104 pages
..." It does not treat of the whole of man's nature as modified by the social state, nor of the whole conduct of man in society. It is concerned with him...capable of judging of the comparative efficacy of means for obtaining that end." After remarking at some length on the mixed motives which govern men in the... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - Social Science - 1872 - 500 pages
...we — " Do not treat of the whole of man's nature as modified by the Eocial state, nor of the whole conduct of man in society. It is concerned with him solely as a being who desires to acquire wealth, and who is capable of judging of the comparative efficiency of means for obtaining... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1874 - 236 pages
...It does not treat of the whole of man's nature as modified bv the i/ social state, nor of the whole conduct of man in. society. It is concerned with him...capable of judging of the comparative efficacy of means for obtaining that end. It predicts only such of the phenomena of the social state as take place in... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Business & Economics - 1874 - 208 pages
...whole of man's nature as modified bv the >/ iocial state, nor of the whole conduct of man in 8 ociety. It is concerned with him solely as a being who desires...capable of judging of the comparative efficacy of means for /obtaining that end. It predicts only such of the f phenomena of the social state as take place... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - Labor - 1876 - 432 pages
...some Unsettled Questions in Political Economy," as follows: " Political Economy is concerned with man solely as a being who desires to possess wealth, and...capable of judging of the comparative efficacy of means to that end. . . It makes entire abstraction of every other human passion or motive, except those which... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - Labor economics - 1876 - 440 pages
...some Unsettled Questions in Political Economy," as follows: " Political Economy is concerned with man solely as a being who desires to possess wealth, and...capable of judging of the comparative efficacy of means to that end. . . It makes entire abstraction of every other human passion or motive, except those which... | |
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It is concerned with him solely as a being who desires to possess wealth, and who is capable of judging of the comparative efficacy of means for obtaining that end. 
