...from other causes. Though much of the scheme of economic theory, much of its scientific machinery, is of wide application, we cannot insist too urgently...to require a new development of economic doctrines. 1 One reason why ordinary conversation is simpler in form than a scientific treatise, is that in conversation...

...without important disturbance from other causes. Though economic analysis and general reasoning are of wide application, we cannot . insist too urgently...to require a new development of economic doctrines. § 3. The progress of economics as of every other science can be effected only by the reason acting...

...moralists to approve or disapprove of the project." On the same subject Professor Marshall has remarked : " It is sometimes said that physical laws are more universally...require a new development of economic doctrines." : The earliest combinations of men for the purpose of supplying their daily wants led to a certain...

...also getting to understand more fully how every age and every country has its own problems, and how every change in social conditions is likely to require a new development of economic doctrines. APPENDIX B' CONSUMERS' SURPLUS. § 1. THE benefit, which a person gets from purchasing at a low price...

...proposition, has no longer any practical bearing .... every age and every country has its own problems, and every change in social conditions is likely to require a new development of economic doctrines." 3. Professor Ashley, in the preface to " Economic History," observes that, economic theories are based...

...wide application, we cannot insist too urgently that every age and every country has its awn problem ; and that every change in social conditions is likely...require a new development of economic doctrines." The divergences of eastern facts and western theory are due only to the imperfect character of the...

...general reasoning are of wide application, yet every age and every country has its own problems ; and every change in social conditions is likely to require a new development of economic doctrines2. l Compare Book II, chapter I. ! Some parts of economics are relatively abstract or pure,...

...are of wide application," he states (1936: 37), "yet every age and country has its own problems; and every change in social conditions is likely to require a new development of economic doctrines." And Key nes says: "Economists 24. In his introduction to the Collected Works of Carl Menger (Menger...

...from other causes. Though much of the scheme of economic theory - much of its scientific machinery - is of wide application, we cannot insist too urgently...require a new development of economic doctrines." This passage is fundamental in Knies, the most systematic defender of the historic method in Political...

...states (Principles of Economics, ed. 1936, 37), " yet every age and country has its own problems ; and every change in social conditions is likely to require a new development of economic doctrines." And Keynes says in the same vein : " Economists . . . write always sub specie temporis, and achieve...