![]() The sphere of regular exchange ( sale) of goods is their market (p. Wagner shows that he knows nothing of the “history” of these duties// “that goods at least partially free in nature become purely economic ones, sold as a matter of business to the highest bidder” (p. In deducing export duties in the Southern countries from this, Mr. in the sale of tropical products to countries of the temperate zone.” //“One example are the export duties on products of a kind of natural monopoly, which are imposed in some countries (Southern Europe, tropical countries) on the safe assumption that they will be passed on to the foreign consumers” (Note 11, p. with especially good vineyards, and indeed even between different peoples, e.g. “In particular natural monopolies of location have the effect, especially in urban” (!natural monopoly of the location in the City of London!) “conditions, then under the influence of the climate for the agricultural production of entire countries, further, natural monopolies of the specific fertility of the land, e.g. 10, Note 6).Īccording to Wagner the historicolegal are the “ social categories” (Note 6, p. “Even the mere management of wealth for the purpose of procuring revenue always necessitates activities which belong to the concept of labour, and likewise the employment of the income thus acquired for the satisfaction of needs” (p. Wagner does not distinguish between the concrete character of each kind of labour and the expenditure of labour power common to all these concrete types of labour (pp. Every act resulting from it is therefore an answerable one, and is always governed by a moral judgement, though this is admittedly” (!) “itself liable to historical change” (p. “The ‘instinct to satisfy one's needs’” … “does not function, and is not meant to function, as a pure force of nature but, like every human instinct, it is subject to the guidance of reason and conscience. His research is primarily devoted to the “ conditions of economic life in a community” and he “ determines from them the sphere of the economic freedom of the individual” (p. Wagner says even of piracy as “unlawful acquisition” by entire peoples that it is only robbery if “ a true jus gentium is presumed to obtain” (p. ![]() For the “ main points of the foundation” he refers to Rodbertus and Schäffle. Thereby finds himself “ in accord with Rodbertus, Lange and Schäffle” (p. Wagner's conception, the “ socio-legal conception” (p. ![]() Translated and edited by Carver, Oxford, 1975, pp. In English, this work was first published in: K. ![]() Rodbertus-Jagetzow which appeared in Berlin after January 1881. 550) of Rudolph Meyer's Briefe und Socialpolitische Aufsaetze von Dr. It has been possible to date these notes by Marx's mention in his manuscript (see Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 24, p. The book which prompted Marx's notes was the second edition of Adolph Wagner's Allgemeine oder theoretische Volkswirtschaftslehre, erster Theil: Grundlegung, published in Leipzig and Heidelberg in 1879 as the first volume of Lehrbuch der politischen Oekonomie by Adolph Wagner and Erwin Nasse.
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