Economic Theory Literature
Excerpt: INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. 1. EIGHT hundred years have now passed since William of Normandy carried out a great survey of the kingdom he had secured, and embodied the result of his enquiry as to its economic condition in Domesday Book. This work stands out as a great monument which plainly records the general character of English life in bygone days, though there is much difficulty in interpreting the details of the information it contains. A very little consideration ...
Excerpt: DEDICATION. TO DR. MEAD. To intrude in this manner upon your time, 80 usefully employed in the duties of your profession, would expose me in some measure to blame, were it upon a less important occasion, than that of recommending the following work to your generate protection. The dignity of the subject, which, handled by other pens, has been thought worthy of being inscribed to the most illustrious personages of the last and present age, urill plead, I hope, so...
Excerpt: Chapter VII. The best way of proving that my principle of social development will ultimately regenerate social science, is to show that it affords a perfect interpretation of the past of human society,?at least in its principal phases. If, by this method, any conception of its scope and proper application can be obtained, future philosophers can extend the theory to new analyses, and more and more special aspects of human progression. The application which I pro...
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Cover title also in Polish: Akta historyczne do obja?nienia rzeczy polskich s?uz?ce od roku 1507 do roku 1795.
Excerpt: PRINCIPLES OF POLITIC LAW; BEING A SEQUEL TO THE PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF NATURE. PART I. Which treats of the origin and nature of civil society, foreign in general, of its peculiar characteristic, limitations, and essential parts. CHAP. I. Containing a few general and preliminary reflections, which serve as an introduction to this and the following parts. I. WHATEVER has been hitherto explained, concerning the rights and duties of man, relates to the natural an...
Economics
The decision-making process for the development and maintenance of low-volume rural roads suffers from the lack of a customized economic evaluation tool. The World Bank?s Highway Design and Maintenance Standards Model (HDM-III) (1) and the forthcoming Highway Development and Management Model (HDM-4), being developed by the International Study of Highway Development and Management Tools, present a good framework for the economic evaluation of road investments and maintena...
Excerpt: Book V: Biology. Chapter I. General View of Biology. The study of the external world and Man is the eternal business of philosophy, and there are two methods of proceeding; by passing from the study of Man philosophy to that of eternal nature, or from the study of external nature to that of Man. Whenever philosophy shall be perfect, the too methods will be reconciled: meantime, the contrast of the two distinguishes the opposite philosophies,?the theological and ...
In: Mathematics, 1850-1910, in the Mathematics Collection, Brown University Library. Reel no. 7222. Item no. 2.