 | Lewis S. Feuer - Religion - 524 pages
.... . . 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...countries; and might be still more different, if mankind so chose.27 Thus, the law of diminishing returns was, according to Mill, essentially a law of chemistry... | |
 | Gabriel A. D. Preinreich - Accounting - 1996 - 236 pages
...distribution of wealth depended upon the laws and customs of society determined by the ruling classes. These "are very different in different ages and countries...might be still more different, if mankind so chose." Karl Marx, basing his work in part on the study of the British "Blue Books," was concerned princi169... | |
 | Robert L. Heilbroner - Business & Economics - 1996 - 376 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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Business & Economics - 1998 - 516 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... | |
 | Gunnar Myrdal - Business & Economics - 1998 - 270 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.' Op. cit., II, I, 1, my italics. 18. What has come to be known as the 'New" Welfare Economics' has continued... | |
 | John Skorupski - Philosophy - 1998 - 612 pages
...rules by which [distribution] is determined, are what the opinions and feelings of the ruling portion of the community make them, and are very different...countries; and might be still more different, if mankind so chose".37 Thus, in an advanced moral culture, society may choose to establish far more egalitarian... | |
 | Werner Stark - Philosophy - 1998 - 372 pages
...satisfied with vague generalities. But this is what he has to say on the problem under discussion here: 'The opinions and feelings of mankind, doubtless,...consequences of the fundamental laws of human nature, combined with the existing state of knowledge and experience, and the existing condition of social... | |
 | Bruce E. Kaufman - Business & Economics - 1997 - 570 pages
...institutions solely." Wealth and income therefore depend "on the laws and customs of society . . . and are very different in different ages and countries;...might be still more different, if mankind so chose" (Cited in Heilbroner 1996:133-34). 8 Their rejection of neoclassical equilibrium is in the tradition... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood, Michael McLure - Business & Economics - 1999 - 608 pages
.... . . 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. But, then, Mill really wanted the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; Pareto wanted... | |
 | Robert L. Heilbroner - Business & Economics - 2011 - 373 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. . . ." It was a body blow to the followers of Ricardo who had rigidified his objective findings into... | |
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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;... 
