 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - Labor - 1879 - 266 pages
...production and its limit. Mr. John Stuart Mill has stated the case with his usual clearness and force : " The laws and conditions of the production of wealth...nothing optional or arbitrary in them. Whatever mankind produces must be produced in the modes and under the conditions imposed by the constitution of external... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1885 - 626 pages
...Treatise, are, in certain respects, strongly distinguished from those, on the consideration of which we are now about to enter. The laws and conditions of the production of wealth, cartake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional, or arbitrary in them. Whatever... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1887 - 736 pages
...12,677,801 From "Appleton*' Annual CydopaaHa." BOOK II. DISTRIBUTION. CHAPTEE I. OF PKOPEBTY. § 1. THE laws and conditions of the Production of Wealth...truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them. It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1888 - 98 pages
...a great city, from which gravel is taken, affect the value of the gravel? 3. It has been said that "the laws and conditions of the production of wealth...truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them." State briefly the laws of the production of wealth here referred to, and whether the statement in regard... | |
 | VAN BUREN DENSLOW - 1888 - 826 pages
...and humane. That can not be done on the bases assumed by Smith and Mill. Mr. Mill says* that, "while the laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the qualities of physical truths," in which there is "nothing optional or arbitrary," it "is not so with... | |
 | Van Buren Denslow - Economics - 1888 - 846 pages
...and humane. That can not be done on the bases assumed by Smith and Mill. Mr. Mill says* that, " while the laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the qualities of physical truths," in which there is " nothing optional or arbitrary," it " is not so with... | |
 | National Liberal Club Political Economy Circle - Economics - 1891 - 134 pages
...more than ever rigid; Distribution more than ever the reverse. Not only " the laws," but also " the conditions of the production of wealth, partake of...truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them." On the other hand : " It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution... | |
 | William Smart - Economics - 1899 - 390 pages
...science. With this feeling I entirely sympathise. But one is reminded of Mill's words : that, while the laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths, the distribution of wealth is a matter of human institution only ; and, this being so, the economist,... | |
 | Simon Nelson Patten - Economics - 1899 - 460 pages
...distinction between the laws of production and those of distribution. The laws of production, he tells us,1 partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary about them. But the distribution of wealth is a matter of human institutions, depending upon the opinions... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1900 - 506 pages
...are, in certain respects, strongly distinguished from those, on the consideration of which j we are now about to enter. The laws and conditions of the...wealth, partake of the character of physical truths. i There is nothing optional, or arbitrary in them. Whatever mankind produce, must be produced in the... | |
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The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. 
