Die geplante Erhöhung der Brausteuer für das norddeutsche Braugewerbe und deren Folgen

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Identifikator:: 870052624

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-491

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Zeitz, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/13395689X

Title:: Die geplante Erhöhung der Brausteuer für das norddeutsche Braugewerbe und deren Folgen

Edition:: Sonderabdruck

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Buchdruckerei Gebr. Unger

Year of publication:: 1906

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (61 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: 5.Die Staffelung

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22 POLITICAL ECONOMY religion to a shoe-black,” as Leslie Stephen expressed it—but the conceptions of demand and supply were seldom precise, and were not infrequently erroneous. They proved as treacherous to the inexpert as the conception of evolution has proved since to shallow thinkers in the biological and mental sciences. Theories tend to crystallise into formulae expressing half-truths, and these get to be fitted unthinkingly to facts to which they are alien. In this connection it behoves us to bear in mind that the marginal theory, like the old notions of demand and supply, will increasingly cease to be an exception to the rule. Already, indeed, instances could be recorded of pontifical pronouncements, made on the strength of mechanical resort to the marginal theory, where a penetrating study of the living facts could alone justify even the least dogmatic of utterances. To the limitations of the use of the marginal theory and the need of supplementing it invariably with direct observation, reference will be made again and in more detail. It must now be our aim to get a grasp of the nature and difficulties of scientific explanation within the economic domain. It has been declared by some that society

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