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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INTRODUCTORY 23 as an organic whole does not lend itself to analysis. By the statement that society is an organic whole is meant that no one set of human actions can be regarded as wholly unconnected with any other set of human actions taking place in the same community. Each society, it is asserted— and we may allow at once rightly asserted— presents an organized system of activities covering all that happens at one time and reaching backwards into the past and for wards into the future. A simple illustration can readily be furnished. My demand for a particular ^ book to-day—say, for Pareto’s Cours cTEconomie Politique, which at the time that I write is out of print—is dependent (a) upon my possession of other things, which gives to this want the oppor tunity of expressing itself, or may even be partially responsible for its existence ; (b) upon my education and circumstances in the past ; (c) upon my ideas and deter minations as regards my future ; and (d) upon the tastes, acquirements and possessions of my fellows. This being so, to take out the demand in question and try to study it as an independent specimen is to imply an atomistic view of social functioning which is in conflict with

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