"Our object in these remarks has been not……" — 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 Political Economy, and to suggest means by which its advancement may be accelerated, but also to warn the reader of the nature of the following Treatise."
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Nassau William Senior
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14 Quotes by Nassau William Senior
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To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among…
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But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may…
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With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political…
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We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production,…
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The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science…
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One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right…
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The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it…
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The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed,…
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Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of…
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That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles…
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That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their…
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The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal…
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