 | Alfred Marshall - 1890 - 808 pages
...trade no two persons pursuing the same aims Different routes are chosen in obtaining the same end. will adopt exactly the same routes. The tendency to variation is a factor of progress; and the abler are the undertakers in any trade the more powerful is this factor... | |
 | Alfred Marshall - 1891 - 832 pages
...in various ways the methods of arrangement of every class of business that is carried on in it. But even in the same place and the same trade no two persons pursuing the same aim* Different will adopt exactly the same routes. The tendency to variation is a factor of progress... | |
 | 1891 - 874 pages
...give the best result. What he says of material production is true also of the art of exposition. ' No two persons pursuing the same aims will adopt exactly the same routes.' There are those who would prefer to employ more copiously the terminology of the calculus, the conception... | |
 | 1891 - 870 pages
...give the best result. What he says of material production is true also of the art of exposition. ' No two persons pursuing the same aims will adopt exactly the •same routes.' There are those who would prefer to employ more copiously the terminology of the calculus, the conception... | |
 | Alfred Marshall - 1892 - 496 pages
...in various ways the methods of arrangement of every class of business that is carried on in it. But even in the same place and the same trade no two persons...aims will adopt exactly the same routes. The tendency Different to variation is a factor of progress ; and the abler routes are . -IT• 11 chosen in obare... | |
 | Francis Ysidro Edgeworth - 1925 - 304 pages
...give the best result. What he says of material production is true also of the art of exposition. " No two persons pursuing the same aims will adopt exactly the same routes." There are those who would prefer to employ more copiously the terminology of the calculus, the conception... | |
 | Richard Langlois - 1986 - 292 pages
...as to obtain better results with a given expenditure, or equal results with less expenditure . . . even in the same place and the same trade no two persons...tendency to variation is a chief cause of progress" (Marshall 1920, p. 355). A recent research study (Balestri 1982) shows the Marshallian process at work... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1996 - 462 pages
...selection typically achieved through substitution was in fact beneficial for society as a whole; thus: Every locality has incidents of its own which affect...tendency to variation is a chief cause of progress [p. 355; also, eg, pp. 298, 601]. We are now able to explain and describe the implicit nature and form... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1996 - 422 pages
...product for any given scale of output as having an unequivocal meaning," For, as Marshall observed, "Even in the same place and the same trade no two...pursuing the same aims will adopt exactly the same routes For instance, of two manufacturers in the same trade, one will perhaps have a larger wages bill and... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 642 pages
...product for any given scale of output as having an unequivocal meaning." For, as Marshall observed, "Even in the same place and the same trade no two...the same aims will adopt exactly the same routes. . . . For instance, of two manufacturers in the same trade, one will perhaps have a larger wages bill... | |
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Every locality has incidents of its own which affect in various ways the methods of arrangement of every class of business that is carried on in it ; and even in the same place and the same trade, no two persons pursuing the same aims will adopt exactly... 
