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The difficulties in economic life arise mainly because men forget divine power,

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The whole Marxian system springs from classical political economy as it found expression in Ricardo.

Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden
It is generally conceded that mercantile capitalism preceded and prepared the ground for modern industrial capitalism.

Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden
Profit can only arise upon alienation, i. e. in the act of exchange, when the seller sells more dearly than he has bought.

Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden
In its origins the utility school was strongly influenced by a desire to strengthen the potentially apologetic character of economics.

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Since the earth can yield its cultivator more then he needs for his own subsistence, the surplus can be appropriated by another class.

Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden
Ideas appropriate to a past social order have a strange power of influencing thought and action within a later institutional frame work.

Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden
Adam Smith himself was under no allusion about the desire of individuals, particularly business men, to create privileged positions for themselves.

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Those who claim that Marx invented the ides of the class struggle should read not only his English socialist forerunners, but also a man like Burke.

Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden
Aristotle laid the foundation of the distinction between use-value and exchange-value, which has remained a part of economic thought to the present day.

Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden
Christ, addressing Himself to the labourers of His time, proclaimed for the first time the worthiness both in material and a spiritual sense of all work.

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Robbed of a foundation of political philosophy on which (how ever illegitimately) it had based itself, economics is in great danger of becoming a plaything of demagogy.

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Capitalism had been more revolutionary then any previous social system. It had swept away without scruples old institutions and modes of thought, if they were found to stand in its way.

Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden
The second difficulty inherent in the contradictory character of the commodity is this: a commodity must have use value, but not for its owner, for if it had, it would cease to be a commodity.

Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden