Political Economy
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economical profession · political economy · science of Political Economy · the dismal science
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The discipline of economic theory, repeatedly invoked and contested in debates over factory legislation.
A notion is entertained that political economists are, in all cases, enemies to all sorts of interference, but I assure you I am not one of those who entertain such an opinion.
As a sort of Christian and Tory socialist he attacked, though without any true grasp of political economy, the individualism which underlay the teaching of economists such as Ricardo.
“As respects the right and justice by which young persons ought to be protected from excessive labour, my mind has ever been decided, and I will not argue the matter for a moment with political economy;
Ancient Law
The discipline of economic science, presented as presupposing the retreat of Imperative Law before Contract.
It is certain that the science of Political Economy, the only department of moral inquiry which has made any considerable progress in our day, would fail to correspond with the facts of life if it were not true that Imperative Law had abandoned the largest part of the field which it once occupied, and had left men to settle rules of conduct for themselves with a liberty never allowed to them till recently.