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History of Political Economy (2009) 41 (2): 271–295.
Published: 01 June 2009
... 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: [email protected] . This article is dedicated to Professor Alain Béraud. Copyright...
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History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (Suppl_1): 129–153.
Published: 01 December 2003
..., crammed with such a multitude and variety of things” (Liebknecht 1730, preface). One reason the mineral realm was seen as so variedanddiverse was, of course, the inherent difficulty in reducing some rock finds to previ- ously known natural kinds or species. Unlike the plant specimens catalogedin...
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History of Political Economy (2006) 38 (3): 547–554.
Published: 01 September 2006
... and with this language. This can be very different from the literary language describing the buying and selling of options. It shouldnʼt be assumed that thinking in this mathematical language is the natural thing to do. (If it were so, why didnʼt it appear in the eighteenth century?) I think the misunderstanding...
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History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (4): 711–732.
Published: 01 November 2000
.... Porter, Ray. 1992 . The Patient in England,c.1660-c.1800. In Medicine in Society: Historical Essays , edited by A. Wear. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Rae, John. 1895 . Life of Adam Smith . London: Macmillan. Rather, L. J. 1968 . The “Six Things Non-natural”: A Note on the Origins...
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History of Political Economy (2007) 39 (Suppl_1): 269–291.
Published: 01 December 2007
.... Goodwin life, Virginia reflected on the aesthetes who would benefit therefrom. They are “by nature or by circumstances in a position where they can use their faculties to the full upon things that are of importance. They are not neces- sarily happy or successful, but there is a zest...
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History of Political Economy (1993) 25 (suppl_1): 221–248.
Published: 01 January 1993
... in Economics: An Interpretation beyond Physics Arjo Klamer The cultivated man of today is gradually turning away from natural things, and life is becoming more and more abstract.— Piet Mondrian, 1919 Yes, 1932 was a great time to be born as an economist. The sleeping...
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History of Political Economy (2009) 41 (3): 519–543.
Published: 01 September 2009
... to Plato, but approved of the “infi nite” wants of the mind, which stimulate trade. As he wrote in A Discourse of Trade ([1690] 1905), “Man naturally Aspires, and as his Mind is elevated . . . his Wants increase with his Wishes, which is for every thing that is rare, can grati- fi e his Senses, adorn...
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History of Political Economy (1978) 10 (1): 46–113.
Published: 01 March 1978
... temporal, but did not find it an adequate guide to action : But when a temporal necessity and a spiritual advantage are compared, the advantage, in the nature of the thing, is overbal- anced by the degree of necessity, and the greatness of the end; and it is better to sell...
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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (4): 575–606.
Published: 01 December 2017
... Advancement of Learning (1605) and Novum Organum (1620), Robert Boyle’s Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things (1688), 3. This British tradition of scientific natural theology is described by Young (1985), who argued it formed the common context for intellectual life in Britain...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (5): 843–872.
Published: 01 October 2024
... in the Empire, without altering the prices of things and without imposing new taxes” (29). To try to explain the remarkable Chinese wealth that the previous facts so clearly illustrated, three possible types of causes were suggested in the Iberian view: natural causes, those related to work and techniques...
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History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (Suppl_1): 154–172.
Published: 01 December 2003
... and in such mutual nexus, that they aim at the same endSothat natural things may last in continued series, the wisdom of the highest Being has ordained, that all living beings perpetually work for the production of new individuals, and that all natural bodies reach out a helping hand to their neighbor...
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History of Political Economy (1977) 9 (4): 504–521.
Published: 01 November 1977
...- cern the causes of things, and the causes include the end or final cause of the event or phenomenon in question.22 The teleological conception of natural processes is linked up with the basic notion that nature is characterized by qualitative, “formal” differences between kinds of things...
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History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (3): 495–519.
Published: 01 September 2010
...- stances. All things are common according to the law of nature, not in the sense that natural law commands a community of goods or forbids the divi- sion into private property, but in the sense that nothing was applied by nature to anyone in particular. (Lugo [1642] 1868, 6, 6...
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History of Political Economy (1983) 15 (4): 501–512.
Published: 01 November 1983
.... 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 and is scarce in the absolute sense. Its scarcity, therefore, implies some limitation upon output...
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History of Political Economy (1982) 14 (4): 559–563.
Published: 01 November 1982
... and methodology (of economics, in this case). Schumpeter confuses arguments relating to things which are ‘first for us,’ the empirical, with those relating to things which are ‘first by nature,’ the analytical; he mistakes, as we would say, history for theory. And this mistake is compounded by his...
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History of Political Economy (1981) 13 (4): 812–823.
Published: 01 November 1981
... History of Political Economy 13:4 (1981) The exposition Socrates begins the discussion by asking whether ‘wisdom,’ ‘soundness of mind,’ ‘courage,’ ‘justice,’ and ‘holiness’ are “five names for one thing” or whether “there corresponds to each of these names some separate thing or entity...
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History of Political Economy (1983) 15 (1): 122–135.
Published: 01 March 1983
... of convention and agreement, whereas physis was nature. The adiaphora were the matters of arbitrary choice 5. Frederick Copleston has shown the way in which the Stoics have constructed a scale of values around good, evil, and indifferent things. cf A history of philosophy, vol. I: Greece...
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History of Political Economy (1988) 20 (4): 583–613.
Published: 01 November 1988
... the nature of these questions. A good way to start is to juxtapose a discussion of these questions with Foucault’s only sustained discussion of economic theory in The order of things, arguably his most difficult but rewarding work. We should first admit, however, that modem economic theory in most...
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History of Political Economy (1972) 4 (1): 163–175.
Published: 01 March 1972
... all things are consistezvt with surrounding nature. In short, all things are part of a great design. Shaftesbury goes on to emphasize his belief in the all-com- prehending design principle : ‘ ‘ See there the mutual dependency of things! the relakion of one to another . . . the order, union...
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History of Political Economy (1969) 1 (1): 44–66.
Published: 01 March 1969
... be thought to exist only by convention, and not by nature. . . . [It] is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to acceFt probable reasoning from a mathematician...