| Alfred Marshall - 1885 - 66 стор.
...theory, which is the only part of economic doctrine that has any claim to universality has no dogmas. It is not a body of concrete truth, but an engine for the discovery of concrete truth ; similar to, say, the theory of mechanics. That theory contains no statement of fact as to the greatest... | |
| Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1885 - 592 стор.
...overrated through lack of consideration of the extreme mutability of its subject-matter. Economic theory "is not a body of concrete truth, but an engine for the discovery of concrete truth, similar to, say, the theory of mechanics." Prof. Simon Newcomb, in his Principles of Political Economy,... | |
| 1924 - 812 стор.
...to the central scheme of economic reasoning, I do not assign any universality to economic dogmas. It is not a body of concrete truth, but an engine for the discovery of concrete truth." 2 1 The Present Position of Economics, 1885. Holding these views and living at a time of reaction against... | |
| J. J. Klant - 1984 - 224 стор.
...correct conclusions.' This is how he must have learned it from Marshall, who called economic theory, 'not a body of concrete truth, but an engine for the discovery of concrete truth' (1966, 159). Marshall mainly announced his methodological ideas in his inaugural address, The Present... | |
| Carlo M. Cipolla - 1992 - 212 стор.
...the mind, a technique of thinking' (1973 edn, XIV, ii, p. 296). Alfred Marshall remarked, 'Economics is not a body of concrete truth but an engine for the discovery of concrete truth' (1885, p. 25); and TS Ashton added that economics 'has ceased to be a set of conclusions and has become... | |
| John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 386 стор.
...It is necessary if empirical phenomena are to be understood, but alone it is not sufficient, for "It is not a body of concrete truth, but an engine for the discovery of concrete truth . . . "40 Yet when the nature of this pure theory is juxtaposed to the nature of the empirical reality... | |
| John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 534 стор.
...to the central scheme of economic reasoning, I do not assign any universality to economic dogmas. It is not a body of concrete truth, but an engine for the discovery of concrete truth.75 Holding these views and living at a time of reaction against economists when the faults of... | |
| Roger Backhouse - 1994 - 404 стор.
...empirical testing in economics is, surely, inconsistent. I endorse the Marshallian dictum that economics is 'not a body of concrete truth, but an engine for the discovery of concrete truth', but if economics is to be practically relevant, there must be some concrete truths in which we can... | |
| Roger Backhouse - 276 стор.
...economic theory: that part of economic doctrine, which alone can claim universality, has no dogmas It is not a body of concrete truth, but an engine for the discovery of concrete truth, similar to, say, the theory of mechanics. He used an example from engineering to illustrate the dangers... | |
| John Cunningham Wood - 1996 - 422 стор.
...of analysis ,,, machinery of universal application in the discovery of a certain class of truths,,, not a body of concrete truth, but an engine for the discovery of concrete truth," 5 The discovery that there is such a thing as a general method of economic analysis or, to put it differently,... | |
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