... in which men have to adapt their behaviour to the nature of things , or suffer the consequences. Correspondence may be addressed to Rabah Benkemoune, 103 rue du Docteur Bauer, 93400 Saint-Ouen, France; e-mail: rbenkemoune@yahoo.fr . This article is dedicated to Professor Alain Béraud. Copyright...

.... Jolink credits Walras with an advanced under- standing of social scientific law as studying the necessary relations that followed from the nature of things, but we are not told what empirical laws Walras might have discovered. Finally, Jolink credits Walras with a Romanticist personification...

... in Walras is not discussed in any detail. Jolink credits Walras with an advanced under- standing of social scientific law as studying the necessary relations that followed from the nature of things, but we are not told what empirical laws Walras might have discovered. Finally, Jolink credits Walras...

... than pushpin is one step toward a consideration of the appropriate hierarchy of all ends. The natural or ecological basis The steady-state economy follows from a knowledge of the entropy law-the second law of thermodynamics. Low entropy is the common denominator of all useful things...

... analysis of the notion of power ties a power of a thing to its nature or real essence (Harre and Madden 1975, 86): A realist perspective 299 (P) "X has the power to A" means "X can or will do A, in the appropriate conditions, in virtue of its intrinsic nature." This notion involves the distinction between...

... recognizes that naturally occurring things that are useful, such as sea kelp, will command a positive price in the form of rent even when no labor is expended (WN 1.ll.a. 3), a point that seems consis- tent with the case cited above of establishing property rights in those naturally occurring things...

.... On the other hand, period I) and later periods have period t as a part of their history which is not the case with period t or any earlier period. In the nature of things this will be true no matter how short we choose to make period t. Thus, the effort to derive descriptive theories about...

... to justify that conclusion. I cannot here en- ter into an analysis of the Platonic metaphysics this involved (but see Davis, 1994), but it should be noted that this apparatus relies on a theory of intuition as a form of unmediated, pure insight into the underlying real nature of things. Intuition...

... used in its proper eco- nomic sense of value in exchange, has no direct relation to any intrin- sic quality of external things, but only to man’s desires. Its essential element is subjective, not objective; that is to say, lying in the mind or will of man, and not lying in the nature...

... for ‘objective’ and ‘sub- jective’ interpretations of his theory of value? The difference between a Socrates and a modem social scientist is not, however, in the proposition that man is the measure of all things, but in the specific understanding of the nature of man. Does he have objective needs...

..., and of persons engaged in the various civil and military professions, must be exactly proportioned to this surplus produce [of the cultivators], and cannot in the nature of things increase beyond it” (393; emphases added). Another, more cautiously worded proportionality theorem is intro- duced...

... . Making Things Qualitative. In Accounting and Science: Natural Inquiry and Commercial Reason , edited by M. Power, 36 -56. New York: Cambridge University Press. Perspective Making Measuring Instruments Mary S. Morgan In the mid-nineteenth century, economists had many numbers but rela- tively...

... or the physicist or the housewife in her kitchen, making physical ltests to dis- cover whether ;two specimens belong to one land the same comtmodity. The basic theolry of value is an account of the exchange ratios of things whose i&n,ti,ty and nature is established prior to the discussion of their value...

... notion of a socially necessary labor time. Ricardo, however, had Malthus for his intellectual sparring partner, and he could not expect to persuade him without grounding his view of value in the very nature of things. Value, that is, had to be explained solely in terms of natural causes.21...

... hitherto done, perhaps, in any country; and I even conceive it possible, though not probable, that they may have more leisure; but it is not in the nature of things that they can be awarded such a quan- tity of money or subsistence, as will allow them all to marry early, in the full...

..., in the nature of things impossible for a victorious nation to make an economic profit by exacting a war indemnity. An indemnity is equivalent to the wiping out of a foreign debt or to the receipt of a foreign loan on which no interest need be paid" (1921, 18). Nor did Pigou support the argument Keynes had...

..., and franchises, which he then includes in an- other specific class of intangible assets. Veblen observes that in the late nineteenth century changes in the functions of ownership and business property were accompanied by changes in the nature of the things predom- inantly owned. With the advent...

... argued, “Instead of first observing the nature of things, of ordering their observations, and of deducing general truths, they began by stat- ing generalizations, and sought to organize all the particular facts around them, and to draw consequences from them; this engaged them...

... (1991,3) cites a powerful con- trary statement from Smith (I quote here only the more relevant parts). “As the accumulation of stock must, in the nature of things, be previous to the division of labour, so labour can be more and more subdivided in proportion only as stock is previously more...

... . . . that comply with the nature of things or justified by necessity and utility” (149). He argued that examples of natural monopolies are “lands, mines, canals, and railroads,” because they “are not concerned with the same competition operating in the fac- tories, as noticed by Mr. Dupuit” (149). Regarding...