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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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Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy

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...
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Principles of Political Economy: And, Chapters on Socialism

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...
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The Political Element in the Development of Economic Theory

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...
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The Cambridge Companion to Mill

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...
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The Sociology of Knowledge: An Essay in Aid of a Deeper Understanding of the ...

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...
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Government Regulation of the Employment Relationship

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...
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The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic ...

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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Vilfredo Pareto: Critical Assessments of Leading Economists, Volume 1

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...
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The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and ...

Barbara H. Fried - Law - 2009 - 350 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 chose.27 The moral of Mill's account could scarcely be clearer: the distribution of wealth, a product...
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Die Moralphilosophie John Stuart Mills

Manuel García Pazos - Ethics - 1999 - 268 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 in different ages and countries" -1066 In diesem Sinn fällt die Güterverteilung in den Bereich der Sozialethik: „Whatever in the...
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