 | English literature - 1848 - 594 pages
...upon the laws of human 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...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... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - Economics - 1852 - 112 pages
...parts of the passage in which he states and supports this opinion. " Political Economy,"* he says, " is concerned with man 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 phenomena of the social state as take place in... | |
 | Friedrich List - Economics - 1856 - 554 pages
...modified by the social state, nor of the whole conduct of man in society. It is concerned with him solely as a being who desires to possess wealth, and...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
...modified by the social state, nor of the whole conduct of man in society. It is concerned with him solely as a being who desires to possess wealth, and...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
...modified by the social state, nor of the whole conduct of man in society. It is concerned with him solely as a being who desires to possess wealth, and...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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1874 - 236 pages
...modified bv the i/ social state, nor of the whole conduct of man in. society. It is concerned with him solely as a being who desires to possess wealth, and...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... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - Social history - 1876 - 436 pages
...to his furrow, never to stray from it again ? And so vale, Hodge ! Political economy, says Mr. Mill, is concerned with man " solely as a being who desires...capable of judging of the comparative efficacy of means for obtaining that end. ... It makes entire abstraction of every other human passion or motive except... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - Labor economics - 1876 - 440 pages
...to his furrow, never to stray from it again ? And so vale, Hodge! Political economy, says Mr. Mill, is concerned with man " solely as a being who desires...capable of judging of the comparative efficacy of means for obtaining that end. ... It makes entire abstraction of every other human passion or motive except... | |
 | David Syme - Economics - 1876 - 248 pages
...nature as modified by the social state nor of the conduct of man in society. It is concerned with him solely as a being who desires to possess wealth, and...capable of judging of the comparative efficacy of means of obtaining that end. It predicts only such of the phenomena of the social state as take place in... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1877 - 992 pages
...Definition and Method of Political Economy, and also in his Logic, as follows : " Political economy is concerned with man solely as a being who desires to possess wealth. It makes entire abstraction of every other human passion or motive ; except those which may be regarded... | |
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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. 
