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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;... "
Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social ... - Page 240
by John Stuart Mill - 1848 - 566 pages
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Who Should Have Wealth: And Other Papers

George Milton Janes - Economics - 1925 - 188 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." Nowhere is there more need for clear thinking than in the realm of economics. The prophets of change...
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Outlines of Agricultural Economics

Henry Charles Taylor - Agriculture - 1925 - 636 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...countries; and might be still more different, if mankind so choose."1 Those who accept John Stuart Mill's position with regard to distribution will enter upon...
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The Case for Family Endowment

Mary Danvers Stocks - Family allowances - 1927 - 106 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." (JOHN STUART MILL.) EACH year there is produced in the United Kingdom or acquired from abroad, a great...
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The Social Dimension: Volume 2: European Developments in Social Psychology

Henri Tajfel, Colin Fraser, Joseph Maria Franciscus Jaspars - Psychology - 1984 - 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. (Mill 1848: 240) Marx also pointed out the social nature of distribution and. in particular, the social...
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James and John Stuart Mill: Father and Son in the Nineteenth Century

Bruce Mazlish - History - 1988 - 524 pages
...customs of society." Does this mean that distribution forms no part of science? Not so, Mill tells us: 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...
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Catholic Social Thought and Liberal Institutions: Freedom With Justice

Michael Novak - Social Science - 1984 - 316 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...
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Income Distribution in Less Developed Countries

R. M. Sundrum - Developing countries - 1992 - 346 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...be still more different, if mankind so chose. The idea is further elaborated as follows: Under the rule of individual property, the division of the produce...
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Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France ...

Susan Pedersen - Family & Relationships - 1993 - 500 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. John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy (1848) The first of my books in which her [Harriet...
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Varieties of Scientific Experience: Emotive Aims in Scientific Hypotheses

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...
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A Landmark in Accounting Theory: The Work of Gabriel A.D. Preinreich

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...
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