Geschichte der volkswirtschaftlichen Lehrmeinungen

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Identifikator:: 1029261784

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-50039

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Gide, Charles http://d-nb.info/gnd/117543985; Rist, Charles http://d-nb.info/gnd/172332966

Title:: Geschichte der volkswirtschaftlichen Lehrmeinungen

Edition:: Zweite Auflage / nach der dritten französischen Ausgabe herausgegeben von Franz Oppenheimer

Place of publication:: Jena

Publisher:: Verlag von Gustav Fischer

Year of publication:: 1921

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XX, 804 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Analytische Inhaltsübersicht

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CHAPTER XII EPILOGUE AN epilogue after a “ conclusion ” may seem pleon- astic, and but a dull humour. There is a sense, however, in which a second conclusion may not be without interest in considering our main theme. Man’s view of his world is frankly anthropocentric. Certain sacred writings accord with this point of view. On the other hand, the study of the story of life upon earth, it may be said, has rendered it of a value which is not exhausted by thinking of it wholly in connection with its relation to him. Apparently zons passed in earth’s life-story before even the crudest progenitors of the human race appeared. Colossal animals had wandered over the world-surface, only to pass to oblivion, except in so far as their traces remain as fossil skeletons. Prof. E. Rignano has submitted in Scientia, and elsewhere, reasons for their disappearance, among which may be mentioned even 200 favourable conditions for their development. This operated to cause an increase which produced numbers that could not be maintained: sometimes the consequence was annihilation! * Attempts have been made to formulate the life-experiences of living forms quantitatively, and to develop even a mathematical theory of the struggle for existence.” Drs. Pearl and Reed have thought to show that Man’s rate of increase follows a very simple biological law. In certain experiments of theirs they * By Vita Volterra, “Une teoria matematica sulla lotta per Lesis- senza,” Scientia, Vol. XLI, No. 178, pp. 85-102 (1927). 194

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