Die Methoden der Volkszählung, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der im preussischen Staate angewandten

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Identifikator:: 1742732488

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-116734

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Völkerbund, Die Weltwirtschaftskonferenz

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: [Reichswirtschaftsminist.]

Year of publication:: 25. Juni 1927

Scope:: 115 S.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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18 POLITICAL ECONOMY able too narrowly and too superficially, was the characteristic vice of the age. Even the opponents of the political economists fell victims to it : Godwin, the visionary, attempted (in vain) “ to pass the Arctic Circle and Frozen Regions, where the under standing is no longer warmed by the affec tions, nor fanned by the breeze of fancy.” But Bentham, nevertheless, by his abstrac tions, though they represented human nature as far too simple—indeed, one might say, because they did so—gave to economic science an impulse which has endured up to the present time. The data of the science were rendered manageable ; and when its funda mental ideas were revised it was happily found that not demolition and reconstruction of the science, but rather adaptation, re-facing and extension were involved. It is nothing new in the history of thought that a study founded on false hypotheses should embody a framework of permanent value. Physics so frequently alters its hypotheses that physi cists themselves may be left behind. But on each occasion the science of physics does not collapse ; on the contrary little has to be sacrificed; and in its unchecked building up "we are presented with the spectacle of scholars working on different hypotheses, but

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