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Nassau William Senior

English Economist

Born: Sep 26, 1790

Died: Jun 4, 1864

Made Nature Political Science Wealth Which

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That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth. Nassau William Senior

Wealth Sacrifice Every Possible Obtain Articles Person Little Much

The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs. Nassau William Senior

The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness. Nassau William Senior

Nature Wealth Result Will Rest First Few Distribution General Observation Very Branch Which Explains Production Found Consciousness

The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind. Nassau William Senior

Language Mind Made Extraordinary Ranked Must Head Termed Qualities Rent Privilege Commercial Patent Same Process Body Payment Manufacturer Using

The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction. Nassau William Senior

We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy. Nassau William Senior

Nature Science Wealth Political Distribution Following Give Outline Propose Name Economy Political Economy Which Production Treatise Treats

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. Nassau William Senior

Happiness Respect Wealth Political Matter Made First Complaint Virtue Consideration Attention Economists Obstacles Been Often Confine Against Grave Disregard

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