The Character and Logical Method of Political EconomyW. McGee, 1869 - 184 頁 The work on the “Character and Logical Method of Political Economy” may be recommended to students as a safe guide to help them through the mazy labyrinths which the earlier stages of the study present. The purpose of the work is to ascertain the true relation of Political Economy to the Physical Sciences on the one hand, and to the Moral Sciences on the other, both as regards method and compass. The supporters and opponents of Political Economy have each done it injustice by misapprehending its aims and limits. The study, as Professor Cairnes points out and explains with inimitable clearness, does not consist in an investigation into the causes of physical facts or the evolution of psychological processes. Political Economy begins at the point at which physical science and psychological science each end. |
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... represents Political Economy as a science and not as an art . The dis- tinction between these two ideas is thus very clearly pointed out by Mr. Mill . " These two ideas , " he says , " differ from one another as the understanding ...
... represent those views . I therefore ventured to propose a change of phraseology , and offered two definitions , either of which appeared to me to fulfil the necessary requirements . These definitions were as follows , viz . , " the ...
... represented as a purely mental or moral science . I have altered this part of the definition , because I conceive that the province of Political Economy is not so narrow as this language represents it ; no economists , not even the ...
... representing concrete realities , may have nothing accurately to correspond with them in nature . The mechanician may have overlooked the disturbing influence of friction . The astronomer may have been ignorant of the existence of some ...
... represent positive realities . Speaking , therefore , with reference to the conclusions of those physical sciences in which deductive reasoning is employed , such sciences must be regarded as hypothetical . On the other hand , in those ...