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" Political economy or economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life; it examines that part of individual and social action which is most closely connected with the attainment and with the use of the material requisites of well-being. "
Capital Ideas Evolving
by Peter L. Bernstein - 2011 - 304 pages
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Political Science Quarterly, Volume 40

Electronic journals - 1925 - 696 pages
...statement, " Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life; it examines that part of individual and social action...the use of the material requisites of wellbeing", he nowhere proceeds to correlate the two processes of " attainment " and " use " from the standpoint...
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Principles of Economics, Volume 1

Alfred Marshall - Economics - 1891 - 832 pages
...inquires CH' 1how he gets his income and how he uses it. Thus it is on Economics ~ i » iiiii .is on one the one side a study of wealth, and on the other, and more im- Bide a study portant side, a part of the study of man. For man's character ^a Ou the has been moulded...
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Money and Social Problems

James Wilson Harper - Money - 1896 - 396 pages
...the ordinary business of life ; it inquires how he gets his income, and how he uses it. Thus it is on one side a study of wealth, and on the other and more important side, a part of the study of man."2 Money is the centre around which economic science clusters, " not because money or material...
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The Economic Review, Volume 6

Christian sociology - 1896 - 614 pages
...man's actions in the ordinary business of life ; it inquires how he gets his income and how he uses it. Thus it is on the one side a study of wealth and on the other, a more important side, a part of the study of man." 8 This definition completely sets aside the old...
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Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, Volume 28

Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Science - 1897 - 388 pages
...from which recent definitions would debar it altogether. Marshall .says — " Political economy . . . is on the one side a study of wealth, and on the other,...and more important side, a part of the study of man; " and in another place he states — " Ethical forces are among those of which the economist has to...
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Elements of economics of industry, the first vol. of Elements of economics

Alfred Marshall - 1899 - 448 pages
...to increase the material means of their well-being and to turn their resources to the best account. Thus it is on the one side a study of wealth, and...and more important side, a part of the study of man. For man's character has been moulded by his every-day work, and by the material resources which he...
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A Short History of English Commerce and Industry

Langford Lovell Price - Commerce - 1900 - 280 pages
...how he gets his income, and how he uses it." " Thus," he proceeds, " Political Economy, or Economics, is on the one side a study of wealth, and on the other,...and more important, side a part of the study of man. For man's character has been moulded by his every-day work, and by the material resources, which he...
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Alfred the West Saxon: King of English

Dugald Macfadyen - Great Britain - 1901 - 450 pages
...man's actions in the ordinary business of life : it inquires how he gets his income and how he uses it Thus it is on the one side a study of wealth, and...and more important side, a part of the study of man. For man's character has been moulded by his everyday work, and by the material resources which he thereby...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 194

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1901 - 662 pages
...economics would cease to exist. If, in our endeavour to escape from this dilemma, we say that economics ' is on the one side a study of wealth, and on the other,...and more important side, a part of the study of man ' (Marshall, p. 1), we fall at once under the ban of the Archbishop's objection to ' treating of several...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 194

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1901 - 664 pages
...economics would cease to exist. If, in our endeavour to escape from this dilemma, we say that economics ' is on the one side a study of wealth, and on the other,...and more important side, a part of the study of man ' (Marshall, p. 1), we fall at once under the ban of the Archbishop's objection to ' treating of several...
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