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Quotes from The Economic Problem — Ralph George Hawtrey

1879–1975 England

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If each member of society can be induced or impelled to do his allotted task by associating it with some motive that appears to him adequate, then he need never know how he is contributing to the real end, and need not even be aware of the end at all. It is this problem of organization that we shall call the Economic Problem. It is in fact the real subject matter of political economy.

The Economic Problem (1925)

Man is a rational animal, and if human affairs are hard to regulate, his twofold nature is usually the cause. Reason is something ultimate; it would be the same in another planet, or in another universe, as it is here. Animal nature is something contingent; it might have been different. Our life is a compromise, a blend between the animal and the rational.

The Economic Problem (1925)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ralph George Hawtrey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.