 | Van Buren Denslow - Economics - 1888 - 846 pages
...wealth partake of the qualities of physical truths," in which there is " nothing optional or arbitrary," it " is not so with the distribution of wealth. That...is a matter of human institution solely. . . . The distribution of wealth depends on the laws and customs of society." * " Political Enonomy," vol. II.... | |
 | John Neville Keynes - Economics - 1891 - 390 pages
...skill, the perfection of their machinery, and their judicious use of the advantages of combined labour. It is not so with the distribution of wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The distribution of wealth, therefore, depends on the laws and customs of society". 1 Passing from the... | |
 | National Liberal Club Political Economy Circle - Economics - 1891 - 134 pages
...character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them." On the other hand : " It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely." It depends, we are told, " on the laws and customs of society. The rules by which it is determined... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1892 - 628 pages
...employ those properties more or less successfully, to bring about the events in which we are interested. It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That...disposal whatever of them can only take place by the consent of society, or rather of those who dispose of its active force. Even what a person has produced... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely - Economics - 1893 - 826 pages
...said, " partake of the nature of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them. ... It is not so with the distribution of wealth. That is a matter of human institutions solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1900 - 506 pages
...those properties more or less successfully, to bring about the events in which we are interested. 196 It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That...disposal whatever of them can only take place by the consent of society, or rather of those who dispose of its active force. Even what a person has produced... | |
 | Joseph Hiam Levy - Economics - 1903 - 136 pages
...character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them." On the other hand : " It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely." It depends, we are told, " on the laws and customs of society. The rules by which it is determined... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1904 - 626 pages
...employ those properties more or less successfully, to bring about the events in which we are interested. It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That...they like. They can place them at the disposal of whomrwever they please, and on whatever terms. Further, in the social state, in every state except... | |
 | William Buck Guthrie - Socialism - 1907 - 374 pages
...ethics of product, it made possible the basing of socialism upon justice and merit. This marks the 1 " It is not so with the distribution of wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely." — "Principles of Political Economy," Bk. II, Ch. I. 1 " Progress and Poverty." 8 Lassalle, " Herr... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely - Economics - 1908 - 746 pages
...said, "partake of the nature of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them. ... It is not so with the distribution of wealth. That is a matter of human institutions solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them... | |
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It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like. 
