 | Robert L. Heilbroner - Business & Economics - 2011 - 373 pages
...things once there," says Mill, "mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they please. They can place them at the disposal of whomsoever they please, and on whatever terms. . . . Even what a person has produced by his individual toil, unaided by anyone, he cannot keep, unless... | |
 | Norman P. Barry - Social Science - 1999 - 172 pages
...wealth, partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them. This is not so with the distribution of wealth. That is a matter of human institution only.1" Thus although political intervention could not alter the output of an economy, this depended... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - Social Science - 2000 - 466 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. Principles of Political Economy (1848) 1965:Book 2, 199. 4 If. . . the choice were to be made between... | |
 | Barbara H. Fried - Law - 2009 - 350 pages
...could not be said of laws governing the distribution of property: [T]he Distribution of wealth . . . is a matter of human institution solely. The things...mankind, individually or collectively, can do with 77 them as they like. They can place them at the disposal of whomsoever they please, and on whatever... | |
 | Michael Pammer - Business & Economics - 2002 - 326 pages
...zwanzig Jahre an der Bevölkerung als Funktion der Zeit, 1851-1910 301 1. WACHSTUM, GLEICHHEIT, WOHLSTAND »It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That...as they like. They can place them at the disposal ofwhomsoever they please, and on whatever terms. Further, in the social state, in every state except... | |
 | Thomas Sowell - History - 2002 - 308 pages
...distribution. The distribution of output "is a matter of human institutions solely." Mill declared: The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively,...disposal of whomsoever they please, and on whatever terms . . . The distribution of wealth, therefore, depends on the laws and customs of society. The rules... | |
 | Prue Kerr, Geoffrey Colin Harcourt - Economics - 2002 - 328 pages
...partake of the character of physical truths [and] there is nothing optional or arbitrary in them, yet 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. The rules by which it... | |
 | Claudia C. Klaver - Business & Economics - 2003 - 264 pages
...predictions based on the givens of physical nature and human psychology. 8 "It is not so," Mill writes, "with the Distribution of wealth. That is a matter...individually or collectively, can do with them as they like" (PPE 200). The laws of distribution, in other words, are structurally almost a complete inverse of... | |
 | Terry L. Anderson, Fred S. McChesney - Law - 2003 - 412 pages
...distribution of wealth via taxation, Mill asserted, was a matter of discretionary human institution. "The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively can do with them as they like" (Mill [1848] 1969, 200). The flaw in this statement is that the political distribution of "the things... | |
 | Nils Goldschmidt, Michael Wohlgemuth - Germany - 2004 - 304 pages
...nothing optional or arbitrary in them."28 Anders verhalte es sich mit der Verteilung des Wohlstands: „That is a matter of human Institution solely. The...individually or collectively, can do with them as they like. Dies ist der Stein des Anstoßes für FA von Hayek und viele andere Liberale. Da es sich hierbei um... | |
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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. 
