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... PHYSICAL PREMISSES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY , AND OF THE LOGICAL CHARACTER OF THE DOCTRINES THENCE DEDUCED . § 1. Position occupied by economic speculation in relation to the two great departments of existence - matter and mind Views on ...
... PHYSICAL PREMISSES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY , AND OF THE LOGICAL CHARACTER OF THE DOCTRINES THENCE DEDUCED . § 1. Position occupied by economic speculation in relation to the two great departments of existence - matter and mind Views on ...
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John Elliott Cairnes. Political Economy neither a purely mental nor a purely physical inquiry , but referable to a class of studies inter- mediate between mental and physical inquiries Proper limits of economic inquiry § 2. Mental and ...
John Elliott Cairnes. Political Economy neither a purely mental nor a purely physical inquiry , but referable to a class of studies inter- mediate between mental and physical inquiries Proper limits of economic inquiry § 2. Mental and ...
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... physical sciences-- unsusceptibility of precise quantitative statement [ Note.—Mr. McLeod's and Mr. Jennings ' view ] • · • • 108 110 Unprecise character of economic laws illustrated by the theory of the decline of profits · And by the ...
... physical sciences-- unsusceptibility of precise quantitative statement [ Note.—Mr. McLeod's and Mr. Jennings ' view ] • · • • 108 110 Unprecise character of economic laws illustrated by the theory of the decline of profits · And by the ...
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... physical philosophy in the hands of the ancient Greeks , finds it in the circumstance that they intro- duced into their physical speculations ideas inappro- priate to the facts which they endeavoured to solve . 1 ' Cours Complet , ' tom ...
... physical philosophy in the hands of the ancient Greeks , finds it in the circumstance that they intro- duced into their physical speculations ideas inappro- priate to the facts which they endeavoured to solve . 1 ' Cours Complet , ' tom ...
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... physical ideas of force and pressure , they sought to account for external pheno- mena by resorting to moral considerations - to the ideas of strange and common , natural and unnatural , sympathy , horror , and the like - the result ...
... physical ideas of force and pressure , they sought to account for external pheno- mena by resorting to moral considerations - to the ideas of strange and common , natural and unnatural , sympathy , horror , and the like - the result ...
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