Nassau William Senior

We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the…

— Nassau William Senior

The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial…

— Nassau William Senior

The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be…

— Nassau William Senior

The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a…

— Nassau William Senior

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred…

— Nassau William Senior

That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as…

— Nassau William Senior

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that…

— Nassau William Senior

The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to…

— Nassau William Senior

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

Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by…

— Nassau William Senior

The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal…

— Nassau William Senior

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere…

— Nassau William Senior

Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one…

— Nassau William Senior

The state, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or misconduct from punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the reward, which have been provided…

— Nassau William Senior