The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement. — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth. — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by Political Economy,… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect,… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
