 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1866 - 628 pages
...They arc apt to express themselves as if they thought that competition actually does, in all cases, whatever it can be shown to be the tendency of competition to do. This i» partly intelligible, if we consider that only through the principle of competition has political... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1885 - 626 pages
...They are apt to express themselves as if they thought that competition actually does, in all cases, whatever it can be shown to be the tendency of competition...economy any pretension to the character of a science. Bo far as rents, profits, wages, prices, are determined by competition, laws may be assigned for them.... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1887 - 732 pages
...The Postulates of English Political Economy, written just before his death. John Stuart Mill had said that "only through the principle of competition has...economy any pretension to the character of a science," 1 — a dictum that compressed into a sentence the economic system of Ricardo, James Mill, Senior,... | |
 | John Bates Clark, Franklin Henry Giddings - Competition - 1888 - 88 pages
...The Postulates of English Political Economy, written just before his death. John Stuart Mill had said that " only through the principle of competition has...economy any pretension to the character of a science," 1 — a dictum that compressed into a sentence the economic system of Ricardo, James Mill, Senior,... | |
 | Humanities - 1888 - 462 pages
...quite distinct from the question of the ownership of the various requisites of production. VIII. ' Only through the principle of competition has political...economy any pretension to the character of a science' : JS Mill, Principles, Book п., ch. iv., § i. There is here a confusion between ' science ' and '... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - Christianity - 1892 - 354 pages
...which hangs what is current in this country as Political Economy. Indeed Mr. Mill expressly says, " Only through the principle of competition has Political...Economy any pretension to the character of a science."* "What that pretension is worth, wo will inquire a little later on. It will be a fitting introduction... | |
 | Economics - 1893 - 692 pages
...this method, in connection with his treatment of the laws of value and distribution, on the ground, " that only through the principle of competition has...economy any pretension to the character of a science." Studies of later economists have shown, however, that political economy does not forfeit its scientific... | |
 | George Brooks - Industrial policy - 1895 - 350 pages
...They are apt to express themselves as if they thought that competition actually does, in all cases, whatever it can be shown to be the tendency of competition to do." Herein the economists have been very unwise. They have unwittingly done much to foster the irrational... | |
 | Economics - 1906 - 1014 pages
...as much as peace is now. This is omitted in third edition. Second edition, Bk. ii. 4, § 1 (i. 295). "Only through the principle of competition has political...economy any pretension to the character of a science .... [it] cannot be required to do anything more." In third edition (i. 292) these words are added,... | |
 | Economics - 1906 - 672 pages
...much as peace is now. This is omitted in third edition. Second edition, Bk. ii. 4, § 1 (i. 295). " Only through the principle of competition has political...economy any pretension to the character of a science .... [it] cannot be required to do anything more." In third edition (i. 292) these words are added,... | |
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This is partly intelligible, if we consider that only through the principle of competition has political economy any pretension to the character of a science. 
