On The Modern Science Of Economics | by Henry Dunning MacLeod
It is a matter of common notoriety that while economists, in this country at least, have during the last three-quarters of a century achieved a series of great successes, the science of Political Economy itself, or Economics as it may more aptly, and is now becoming more usually termed, is in a most unsatisfactory state; and, indeed, a very large number of persons deny that there is any intelligible science of Economics at all...
| Title | On The Modern Science Of Economics |
| Author | Henry Dunning MacLeod |
| Publisher | John Heywood, Deansgate And Ridgefield |
| Year | 1887 |
| Copyright | 1887, John Heywood, Deansgate And Ridgefield |
| Amazon | The 4-Hour Workweek |
By Henry Dunning Macleod, M.A.
Read April 20th, 1887.
Manchester Statistical Society.
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