Nassau William Senior Quotes

Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 13 quotes by Nassau William Senior Nassau William Senior (26 September 1790 – 4 June 1864), was an English lawyer known as an economist. He was also a government adviser over several decades in the areas of economic and social policy, on which he wrote extensively. Read full biography of 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... → 0 We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To... → 0 But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the... → 0 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... → 0 With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine... → 0 One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for... → 0 The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement. 0 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... → 0 That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth. 0 That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of... → 0 The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general... → 0 The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent;... → 0 Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be... → 0 Add a quote!


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