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 25 shows that the results reached on the basis of a discriminating mental abstraction (that is the imagined separation of things that may be inseparable) hold with approximate accuracy. A brain specialist may study the brain alone, broadly speaking, though no brain could survive when severed from the body with which it was united. Similarly we may study the economic activities of a group of people, ignoring their religious and political instincts as such, that is, so far as they are not expressed economically, though these instincts are an integral part of human nature ; or, again, we may study the economic activities of one person, mentally separating him from the community of which he forms a part. We may go even further in our defence of analytical economics, for there is this very important point to bear in mind, that many of the mental abstractions that we make as economists do not assume, even for the sake of argument, the isolated existence of things that cannot exist in isolation. Marginal abstractions merely confine us to noticing how changes in relation to a thing affect that thing. In other words, thinking now of the marginal method in economics merely, our abstractions consist merely in focusing attention on a thing and difieren-

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