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In a word , we have passed from what the elder economists called a natural ' economy to a ' planned economy A naïve belief has sprung up in the man's power to control the economic forces around him and to bend them to his purpose .
In a word , we have passed from what the elder economists called a natural ' economy to a ' planned economy A naïve belief has sprung up in the man's power to control the economic forces around him and to bend them to his purpose .
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The economic man of to - day , engaged in the pursuit of what he fondly conceives to be his own happiness , with the least possible expenditure of human effort , does not appear to differ materially from his fellow men before the War .
The economic man of to - day , engaged in the pursuit of what he fondly conceives to be his own happiness , with the least possible expenditure of human effort , does not appear to differ materially from his fellow men before the War .
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But this argument is often illegitimately carried over into economics , and there it emerges as the proposition that ... stable economic system than the other type , because the markets of agriculture and manufactures are reciprocal .
But this argument is often illegitimately carried over into economics , and there it emerges as the proposition that ... stable economic system than the other type , because the markets of agriculture and manufactures are reciprocal .
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ART PACE 1 1 Imperial Defence and the International Situation | 1 |
The Perversion of Mountaineering | 2 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volumes 268-269 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1937 |
| Original from | University of Georgia Libraries |
| Digitized | 10 Jun 2022 |
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