A History of Economic Doctrines From the Time of the Physiocrats to the Present
A History of Economic Doctrines From the Time of the Physiocrats to the Present
Charles Gide
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" For his own part he ventures to say that " there is perhaps no action of a man's life in which he is neither under the immediate nor under the remote influence of any impulse but the mere desire of wealth. " 3 It is evident that Mill did not think that self-interest was the one unchangeable and universal human motive. Much less " egoism, " for, as we have seen in the previous chapter, his " egoism " includes a considerable admixture of altruism. But here again the strictures of the Historians..., though somewhat exaggerated, have forced economists of other schools to be more precise in their statements. The economists of to-day, as Marshall remarks, are concerned " with man as he is ; not with an abstract or ' economic ' man, but a man of flesh and blood. " * And if the 1 A. Wagner, Grundhgung, 67, * Vol. Ii, p. 502. 1 Logic, vol. Ii, p. 497. * Principles, Book I, chap. 5, 9. CRITICAL IDEAS 895 economist, as Marshall points out, pays special attention to the desire for gain among the other motives which influence human beings, this is not because he is anxious to reduce the science to a mere " natural history of egoism, " but because in this world of ours money is the one convenient means of measuring human motive on a large scale.
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