Author: Amasa Walker
Publisher:
ISBN: NYPL:33433010783474
Category: Economics
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The Science of Wealth
The key substantive point in relation to the conceptualization of political economy is that Quesnay, like Smith, centres the new economic science on the growth of 'wealth' in the sense of the flow of annual or national product.
Author: Tony Aspromourgos
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134041138
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 417
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This study clarifies the character of 'political economy' as a distinct and separable intellectual discipline in the generic sense, in the texts of Adam Smith. It focuses upon the scope and fundamental conceptualizations of the new science. Smith's conceptualization of economic analysis is shown to constitute a unified intellectual piece for understanding economic society and its dynamics. Smith's fundamental economic language is exhaustively examined, in all his texts, with a view to clarifying the meaning of the basic concepts of his system. As well, the 'prehistories' of those concepts, in literature prior to Smith, back to the earliest times, are quite comprehensively treated, thereby placing his political economy in its larger historical context and conveying a rich sense of the history of these ideas over the whole course of our civilization. A quite complete account of Smith's economics as a whole is also entailed by this undertaking: his key substantive economic doctrines are thoroughly considered as well, and all the elements of his economic theory receive attention. To that extent, notwithstanding the focus on concepts, an interpretation of the substance of Smith's political economy is also provided. This focus is partly motivated by the view that Smith's intellectual triumph in the history of social science is not so much about the success of specific doctrines. His more considerable theoretical success is at a deeper level: gaining a wide and long-lasting acquiescence in the conceptual universe framed by the fundamental structures of his system, for a newly emerging discipline. Those who subsequently contested Smithian doctrine did so within Smith's framework; they did so 'on his terms'. While the book's primary purpose is to reconstruct the character of Smith's political economy as a distinct intellectual enterprise, it also addresses its relevance to modern economics, and to policy and practice in contemporary liberal society.The Science of Wealth
The Science of Wealth
It is only when considered as modes of consumption that they have separate relations to the science of wealth . " Raising money " has been generally accepted as the great business . of a nation in war ; but it is no more so than in ...
Author: Amasa Walker
Publisher:
ISBN: NYPL:33433010783482
Category: Economics
Page: 544
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The Science of Wealth a Manual of Political Economy Etc
It is only when considered as modes of consumption that they have separate relations to the science of wealth . “ Raising money ” has been generally accepted as the great business of a nation in war ; but it is no more so than in ...
Author: Amasa WALKER
Publisher:
ISBN: BL:A0023389457
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The Science of Wealth
... it in the science of political economy , and provide for it Government implies functionaries and expenditures . ... Although the single object of taxation is to obtain a given amount of wealth ( generally in the form of money ) ...
Author: Amasa Walker
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9783752505702
Category: Fiction
Page: 554
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.THE SCIENCE OF WEALTH By J A Hobson
1 John Ruskin and some other prophets of this wider wealth have denied the validity and the utility of the narrower Political Economy. Mere statements about marketable goods, measured in terms of money, do not, they urge, ...
Author: J A Hobson
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category: Business & Economics
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T his Volume contains a study of the structure and working of the modern business world in which wealth is made and distributed as income to those who have made it or can lawfully get hold of it. It describes the ways in which the productive powers of Labour, Ability, Land, Capital and Society are applied in the various trades, arts and professions, for the production of material goods and services, and the ways in which the payment for this work is regulated and carried out. No knowledge of economic facts or principles is presumed, except such as every intelligent man or woman acquires in the ordinary experience of life. So brief a presentation of so large a subject will suffer necessary defects. It will be apt to be too unqualified in statement and too dogmatic in mode of argument. It will shirk some important points of controversy. Since the line of interpretation taken here has been more fully defended in a larger volume entitled The Industrial System, I may be permitted to refer to it those readers who may wish to follow out the argument in more detail. S TUDENTS Desiring to follow the growth of the Science of Wealth in this country will begin with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, following with Ricardo's Principles, and J. S. Mill's Principles of Political Economy for the “classical “ theory. In Jevons' Theory of Political Economy they will find a challenge to the older theory, and a new interpretation of economic “value.” The best authoritative statement of modern “orthodox” theory is in Marshall's Principles of Economics (Macmillan), while Philip H. Wicksteed's Common Sense of Political Economy (Macmillan) presents a valuable psychological interpretation. A reliable brief account of the growth of the science may be found in L. L. Price's Political Economy in England (Methuen), whilst E. Cannan presents a very useful criticism of much of the earlier work in his Theories of Production and Distribution (P. S. King). In Foxwell's Introduction to Menger's Right to the Whole Produce of Labour is found an interesting account of the beginnings of socialistic theory in England, in connection with which Hyndman's Economics of Socialism and Bernstein's Evolutionary Socialism may be read. For a fuller statement of the method of description and interpretation adopted in this volume I may refer to my Evolution of Modern Capitalism (Scott) and The Industrial System (Longmans). Among innumerable special studies of the facts and problems of modern industry, I would refer among the larger works to Booth's Life and Labour in London (Macmillan)and Rowntree's Poverty (Macmill loss's Methods of Industrial Remuneration (Williams and Norgate), Dr. Shadwell's Industrial Efficiency (Longmans), and Brassey and Chapman's Work and Wages (Longmans). But the largest ordered mass of information upon present-day industrial conditions lies in the Reports of the Poor Law Commission. On Finance two excellent elementary textbooks may be found in Withers' The Mcaning of Money (Methuen), and Armitage Smith's Principles and Methods of Taxation (Murray).The Science of Wealth
While the book's primary purpose is to reconstruct the character of Smith's political economy as a distinct intellectual enterprise, it also addresses its relevance to modern economics, and to policy and practice in contemporary liberal ...
Author: Tony Aspromourgos
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134041121
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 416
View: 194
This study clarifies the character of 'political economy' as a distinct and separable intellectual discipline in the generic sense, in the texts of Adam Smith. It focuses upon the scope and fundamental conceptualizations of the new science. Smith's conceptualization of economic analysis is shown to constitute a unified intellectual piece for understanding economic society and its dynamics. Smith's fundamental economic language is exhaustively examined, in all his texts, with a view to clarifying the meaning of the basic concepts of his system. As well, the 'prehistories' of those concepts, in literature prior to Smith, back to the earliest times, are quite comprehensively treated, thereby placing his political economy in its larger historical context and conveying a rich sense of the history of these ideas over the whole course of our civilization. A quite complete account of Smith's economics as a whole is also entailed by this undertaking: his key substantive economic doctrines are thoroughly considered as well, and all the elements of his economic theory receive attention. To that extent, notwithstanding the focus on concepts, an interpretation of the substance of Smith's political economy is also provided. This focus is partly motivated by the view that Smith's intellectual triumph in the history of social science is not so much about the success of specific doctrines. His more considerable theoretical success is at a deeper level: gaining a wide and long-lasting acquiescence in the conceptual universe framed by the fundamental structures of his system, for a newly emerging discipline. Those who subsequently contested Smithian doctrine did so within Smith's framework; they did so 'on his terms'. While the book's primary purpose is to reconstruct the character of Smith's political economy as a distinct intellectual enterprise, it also addresses its relevance to modern economics, and to policy and practice in contemporary liberal society.The Science of Money
Once you have become financially successful and have acquired a good level of wealth, your job is not over. The Science of Money approach requires you to install various forms of wealth protection so that you don't quickly lose what it ...
Author: Brian Tracy
Publisher: Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
ISBN: 9781722520045
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 256
View: 879
The subject of “money” remains one of the most fascinating, thought provoking, emotional, polarizing and well researched subjects in the world. Scores of books, articles, blog posts, and speeches have been written on what money is, how to earn it, how to spend it, who has it and who does not and a myriad of other topics related to the effects that it produces. And yet, despite the constant focus and interest on the topic, there is one word that describes the average person’s views around money: confusion. Now let world renowned bestselling author and business consultant, Brian Tracy, teach you the “science of money” . . . tested and proven not just for years, but for millennia. If you simply study the ideas in this book, and apply them to your life and your business, you too, can become financially successful.