 | Alfred Marshall, Mary Paley Marshall - Economics - 1879 - 334 pages
...preventing "the long duration of great families of merchant princes.... But the propensity to variation in the social as in the animal kingdom is the principle of progress. " See Bagehot's Lombard Street, Introductory chapter. company is large, and it can afford to pay fairly... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 726 pages
...them. The rough and vulgar structure of English commerce is the secret of its life ; for it contains the " propensity to variation," which, in the social...go-between ; it is a sort of standing broker between [the] quiet saving districts of the country and the active employing districts. Why particular trades... | |
 | Langford Lovell Price - Economics - 1891 - 226 pages
...London bankers and bill-brokers have their places of business. Lombard Street is, as Bagehot phrased it, the " great go-between." " It is a sort of standing...of the country and the active employing districts." It is the locality where, in an especial degree, we may say that the most "powerful and delicate part... | |
 | Alfred Marshall - Business - 1919 - 936 pages
...routine.... The rough and vulgar structure of English commerce is the secret of its life; for it contains ' the propensity to variation,' which, in the social...the animal kingdom, is the principle of progress" (Lombard Street, 1873, pp. 10, 11). But when such matters are discutsed to-day, Germany is seen to... | |
 | William Jayne Weston - Banks and banking - 1922 - 356 pages
...our great industrial and manufacturing districts. Bagehot describes the relation : " Lombard Street is a sort of standing broker between quiet saving...of the country and the active employing districts. . . . There are whole districts in England which cannot and do not employ their own money. No purely... | |
 | Alfred Marshall - Antitrust law - 1927 - 966 pages
...routine.. ..The rough and vulgar structure of English commerce is the secret of its life; for it contains 'the propensity to variation,' which, in the social as in the animal kingdom, ia the principle of progress" (Lombard Street, 1873, pp. 10, 11). But when such matters are discussed... | |
 | Asa Briggs - History - 1975 - 368 pages
...that "the rough and vulgar structure of English commerce is the secret of its life; for it contains 'the propensity to variation,' which, in the social...the animal kingdom, is the principle of progress." For Trollope it was the impact of society and politics on personality and on personal notions of self-interest... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - Business & Economics - 1993 - 534 pages
...follows, "The rough and vulgar structure of English commerce is the secret of its life; for it contains the 'propensity to variation,' which, in the social...the animal kingdom, is the principle of progress. "21 Marshall was both cautious and ambivalent on this issue. He concluded that prima facie, one could... | |
 | Philip Mirowski - Business & Economics - 1994 - 640 pages
...rough and vulgar structure of English commerce is the secret of its life," he claimed, "for it contains the 'propensity to variation,' which, in the social...the animal kingdom, is the principle of progress" (196886, 9:49). 15 This was no simple statement that the fittest survived, as would be proclaimed by... | |
 | Geoffrey Russell Searle - Business & Economics - 1998 - 328 pages
...stroctore of English commerce is the seeret of its life; for it comains 'the propensity to vatiation', which, in the social as in the animal kingdom, is the principle of progress."" The 'Darwinian' langoage of this passage is significam, representing as it does the hrotal 'yoo can't... | |
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English commerce is the secret of its life ; for it contains the " propensity to variation," which, in the social as in the animal kingdom, is the principle of progress. 