...NS pp. 617-31. Translated in the Journal des Economistes, March 1877, 3me Serie, vol. xlv, p. 325. the abstract theory, from the applied theory, and...historical, or practical ; the subject may be capital and labour, currency, banking, taxation, land tenure, &c. — not to speak of the more fundamental division...

...him that he thought it ought to be divided into several distinct branches. On this point he says:* "The present chaotic state of economics arises from...treating the branch of the subject. The manner may bc theoretical, empirical, historical or practical ; the subject may be capital and labor, currency,...

...ïetiung btíbe Ьетпаф bo» befte ^eitmtheí. 3sbon§ ¡ettft fuí)rt aß SBeifpiele einer folgen commercial statistics, the mathematical theory of...systematic and descriptive economics, economic sociology unb fiscal science an. (Theory of Political Economy, 2 edit, London 1879, Preface, bef. @. XVI f.)....

...Jevons, whose disciples are numerous and active. " The present chaotic state of economics," he says, " arises from the confusing together of several branches...manner of treating the branch of the subject. The matter may be theoretical, empirical, historical, or practical ; the subject may be capital and labour,...

...remarked that there were bound to be several economic disciplines, such as, eg, "commercial statistics, mathematical theory of economics, systematic and descriptive...economics, economic sociology, and fiscal science." 5* Keynes granted the possibility of an art of political economy, though certain that it would "be...

...And greater disconnectedness was Jevons' cure for the confusion in which he found economics in 1879. the present chaotic state of economics arises from...descriptive economics, economic sociology and fiscal science.10 This, it will be seen later, is the opposite of what Marshall eventually tried to do. It...