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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...
Journal Article
Tracing the Boundaries between Vernacular Science and Academic Theories: A Reply to Franck Jovanovic
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
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