| William Stanley Jevons - Economics - 1879 - 434 pages
...others, down to Bastiat and Courcelle-Seneuil. The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of attaining a true system of Economics...preposterous assumptions of the Ricardian School. Our English Economists have been living in a fool's paradise. The truth is with the French School,... | |
| Religion - 1884 - 844 pages
...Professor Jevons' hope that English economists would (with especial reference to the doctrine of wages), " fling aside, once and for ever, the mazy and preposterous assumptions of the Hicardian school " * is on the highway to realisation. With the fall of the wages-fund theory Malthusianism... | |
| Henry Sidgwick - Economics - 1883 - 626 pages
...of Political Economy, Mr Jevons announces as a conclusion to which he is " ever more clearly coming, that " the only hope of attaining a true system of...mazy and preposterous "assumptions of the Ricardian School1." He subsequently speaks of the doctrines of this school as " Ricardo-Mill Eco" nomics," explaining... | |
| Richard Theodore Ely - Economics - 1884 - 80 pages
...these : " The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of obtaining a true system of economics is to fling aside, once...preposterous assumptions of the Ricardian school. Our English economists have been living in a fool's paradise." The writer has thus sketched the decline... | |
| Johns Hopkins University - History - 1884 - 644 pages
...these : " The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of obtaining a true system of economics is to fling aside, once...preposterous assumptions of the Ricardian school. Our English economists have been living in a fool's paradise." The writer has thus sketched the decline... | |
| Johns Hopkins University - History - 1884 - 690 pages
...to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of obtaining a true system of economies is to fling aside, once and for ever, the mazy and preposterous assumptions of the Ricardian school. Our English economists have boen living in a fool's paradise." The writer has thus sketched the decline... | |
| Religion - 1884 - 838 pages
...Professor Jevons' hope that English economists would (with especial reference to the doctrine of wages), " fling aside, once and for ever, the mazy and preposterous assumptions of the Ricardian school " * is on the highway to realisation. With the fall of the wages-fund theory Malthusianism loses one... | |
| John Kells Ingram - Economics - 1888 - 274 pages
...appreciation of social facts. He was, in his own words, ever more distinctly coming to the conclusion " that the only hope of attaining a true system of economics...preposterous assumptions of the Ricardian school." With respect to method, though he declares it to be his aim to " investigate inductively the intricate... | |
| Edward Clark Lunt - Economics - 1888 - 140 pages
...disgrace to the human intellect. Mr. Stanley Jevons despairs of progress under existing methods, affirming that " the only hope of attaining a true system of economics is to fling aside, once and forever, the mazy and preposterous assumptions of the Ricardian school." Daniel Webster has recourse... | |
| William Allan Macdonald - Social sciences - 1890 - 388 pages
...complicated to be noticed here. Arriving at the conclusion even more clearly, Professor Jevons announced "that the only hope of attaining a true system of...preposterous assumptions of the Ricardian school." Mill, who showed that political economy was based on hypothesis, and dealt merely with "economic men,"... | |
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