 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1887 - 736 pages
...society. The rules by which it is determined are what the opinions and feelings of the ruling portion of the community make them, and are very different...might be still more different, if mankind so chose. We have here to consider, not the causes, but the consequences, of the rules according to which wealth... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1891 - 764 pages
...ultimate laws, which we did not make, which we cannot alter, and to which we can only conform. dividual toil, unaided by any one, he cannot keep, unless it...chance. They are consequences of the fundamental laws oT" human inature, and of the constitution of the planet which we inhabit, modified by 'local or special... | |
 | John Neville Keynes - Economics - 1891 - 390 pages
...society. The rules by which it is determined are what the opinions and feelings of the ruling portion of the community make them, and are very different...might be still more different, if mankind so chose" (Political Economy, ii. 1, § 1). Compare also forces of competition may usually exert a preponderating... | |
 | National Liberal Club Political Economy Circle - Economics - 1891 - 134 pages
...of the very next paragraph, and especially the last two• sentences, which I have italicised :— " The opinions and feelings of mankind, doubtless, are...consequences of the fundamental laws of human nature, combined with the existing state of knowledge and experience, and the existing condition of social... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1892 - 628 pages
...society. The rules by which it is determined, are what the opinions and feelings of the ruling portion of the community make them, and are very different...consequences of the fundamental laws of human nature, combined with the existing Btate of knowledge and experience, and the existing condition of social... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely - Economics - 1893 - 826 pages
...distribution of wealth, therefore, depends upon the laws and customs of society. The rules by -vhich it is determined are what the opinions and feelings...countries; and might be still more different, if mankind so choose." The old and the new doctrines found in Mill's Principles of Political Economy do not harmonize,... | |
 | Charles Douglas - 1895 - 330 pages
...solely." " The rules by which it is determined, are what the opinions and feelings of the ruling portion of the community make them, and are very different...might be still more different, if mankind so chose." J This determination of distribution by human will makes choice a vitally important factor in economic... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1900 - 506 pages
...society. The rules by which it is determined, are what the opinions and feelings of the ruling portion of the community make them, and are very different...consequences of the fundamental laws of human nature, combined with the existing state of knowledge and experience, and the existing condition of social... | |
 | Joseph Hiam Levy - Economics - 1903 - 136 pages
...commencement of the very next paragraph, and especially the last two sentences, which I have italicised: — " The opinions and feelings of mankind, doubtless, are...consequences of the fundamental laws of human nature, combined with the existing state of knowledge and experience, and the existing condition of social... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1904 - 624 pages
...by which it is determined, are what the opinions and feelings of the ruling portion of the commnnity make them, and are very different in different ages...consequences of the fundamental laws of human nature, combined with the existing state of knowledge and experience, and the existing condition of social... | |
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The distribution of wealth, therefore, depends on the laws and customs of society. The rules by which it is determined, are what the opinions and feelings of the ruling portion of the community make them, and are very different in different ages and countries;... 
