An Inquiry Into the Principles of the Distribution of Wealth Most Conducive to Human Happiness

William Thompson

ISBN 10: 1230339817 / ISBN 13: 9781230339818

Edité par TheClassics.us, 2013

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Présentation de l'éditeur: Upwards of a quarter of a century has elapsed, since the first edition of this work was published, and it may be said to have then fallen still-born from the press. At that time mens minds were not prepared for its advanced teachings. It was, and still is, avowedly, no part of the object of the class of writers called Political Economists to institute an inquiry into the principles of the distribution of wealth most conducive to human happiness. Their conceptions have been by no means so rational, so extended, or so dignified. The accumulation of wealth, or capital, and especially in large masses, has been their primary object. Happiness, with them, has been only secondary. They have contented themselves with developing the laws by which the production and distribution of wealth has been, or is, at present regulated; that is to say, the laws by which the empire oiforce and fraud has been, or is, maintained; for only under one or other of r Mr. Senior, formerly Professor of Political Economy in the I University of Oxford, says, It is not with happiness but with I wealth, that I am concerned, as a Political Economist; and I am not Vonly justified in omitting ,but am perhaps bound to omit, all con Vjderations which have no influence on wealth.
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Détails bibliographiques

Titre : An Inquiry Into the Principles of the ...
Éditeur : TheClassics.us
Date d'édition : 2013
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Very Good
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