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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. "
Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social ... - Page 240
by John Stuart Mill - 1848 - 566 pages
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Theorists of Economic Growth from David Hume to the Present: With a ...

W. W. Rostow - Business & Economics - 1992 - 733 pages
...wealth partake of the character 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 institution solely." The conventional caricature of his view is also the product of rather careless reading41; for it is a purposeful...
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John Stuart Mill: Critical Assessments, Volume 1

John Cunningham Wood - Business & Economics - 1991 - 676 pages
...wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them. ... It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That...individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.57 This reasoning later appeared as one of the essential features in Barone's refutation of the...
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Underground Economics: A Decade of Institutionalist Dissent

William M. Dugger - Business & Economics - 1992 - 406 pages
...conditions, imposed by the constitution of external things. ... It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.1 The redistribution of income carried out by the modern welfare state is clearly in the egalitarian...
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Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France ...

Susan Pedersen - Family & Relationships - 1993 - 500 pages
...constitution of external things, and by the inherent properties of their own bodily and mental structure It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That...individually or collectively, can do with them as they like The distribution of wealth, therefore, depends on the laws and customs of society. The rules by which...
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Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory

Moishe Postone, Louis Galambos - Business & Economics - 1996 - 442 pages
...laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. . . . It is not so with the distribution of wealth. That is a matter of human institutions solely."18 This separation, according to Marx, is illegitimate: "The 'laws and conditions'...
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History and Historians of Political Economy

Werner Stark - Business & Economics - 342 pages
..."The laws and conditions of the Production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. ... 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. The rules by which it is determined...
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Varieties of Scientific Experience: Emotive Aims in Scientific Hypotheses

Lewis S. Feuer - Religion - 524 pages
...wealth, partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them . . . It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That...individually or collectively, can do with them as they like . . . The rules by which it is determined, are what the opinions and feelings of the ruling portion...
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The Third Revolution: Professional Elites in the Modern World

Harold James Perkin - Professions - 1996 - 276 pages
...almost indefinitely. The problem, as John Stuart Mill saw a century and a half ago, is distribution: "That is a matter of human institution solely. The...of whomsoever they please, and on whatever terms.' This is what the neo-classical freemarketeers have forgotten or rejected, that while the supply side...
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Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy

Robert L. Heilbroner - Business & Economics - 1996 - 376 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...
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Principles of Political Economy: And, Chapters on Socialism

John Stuart Mill - Business & Economics - 1998 - 516 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...
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