Political economy

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Identifikator:: 867647221

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93157

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Chapman, Sydney John http://d-nb.info/gnd/123743141

Title:: Political economy

Place of publication:: London [u.a.]

Publisher:: Williams & Norgate [u.a.]

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (255 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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10 POLITICAL ECONOMY Now, if early economic writings be examined as a whole it will be found that considerations of quite different classes are included. We find in them questions of an ethical or moral character, concerned with the application of the ideas of the good and the just in social affairs ; and questions of somewhat the same order, though they are not strictly ethical but rather political, relating to the matter of pru- dency and expediency as regards State action. And besides these ethical and political ques tions yet others of different orders are met with. Controversy has arisen, for instance, with respect to the business policy which is most conducive to the wealth of individuals or the community ; and again, quite apart from practice, writers have sought the causes of certain effects. After noticing the various problems which are merged in unsystematic economic discussions taken in the mass, we shall find it convenient to make a division of economic studies somewhat like the following : 1. Economic Ethics. 2. Economic Politics or Public Economics. 3. Economic Arts. 4. Positive Economic Science. A short definition of each of these groups may now be offered. Economic ethics is

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