Der Zentralverband der Genossenschaften in Dänemark

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Identifikator:: 170373419X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-101532

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Der Zentralverband der Genossenschaften in Dänemark

Place of publication:: [Aarhus]

Publisher:: [De forenede Bogtr.]

Year of publication:: [1926]

Scope:: 8 S

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Die einzelnen Genossenschaften und Organisationen

Collection:: Economics Books

INTRODUCTORY 15 be sadly confessed. It is significant that Dickens felt called upon to defend the crime of poverty in the Chimes, and to attack the economic man in Hard Times. By many readers to-day these tales may be ranked among his inferior works by reason of their exaggeration, but had such critics lived in his day it is possible that the exaggeration would have seemed but legitimate artistic emphasis. Ruskin was another writer who felt sure that there were wrongs to be righted ; but, while Dickens appealed to human emotions, he for his part set himself to the task of searching out the errors of reason wherein social wrongs found their source. Unfortunately for political economy, Ruskin in his generous enthusiasm was for root and branch destruction. Falling into the same fundamental error as the popular political economists, in confounding precepts with laws, and, while brilliantly suggestive, adding to the confusion by over laying the positive with the ethical point of view, he denounced not merely the appalling economic maxims which were passing current as political economy but also the scientific generalisations relating to the causes of economic phenomena, the truth and service ableness of which should have been apparent. In the above paragraph events have been,

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