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Distribution (economics)
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economical term
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e. of the results of production, in the form of wages. The subdivisions and organization of distribution are determined by the subdivisions and organization of production. Distribution is itself a product of production, not only in so far as the material goods are concerned, since only the results of production can be distributed; but also as regards its form, since the definite manner of participation in production…
Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
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So distribution is not a mere passive witness of production and exchange; it has an immediate influence on both. Every new method of production and form of exchange is impeded, not only through the old forms and their particular forms of political development, but also through the old method of distribution. It can only bring about its own method of distribution as the result of long conflict.
Friedrich Engels, Landmarks of Scientific Socialism
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Some subsequent formularies represent the manner in which he supposes this distribution is made in different states of restraint and regulation; in which, either the class of proprietors, or the barren and unproductive class, is more favoured than the class of cultivators; and in which either the one or the other encroaches, more or less, upon the share which ought properly to belong to this productive class. Every…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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But when they have secured sufficient to be what they imagine to be an independence--to live without business--they are too often filled with a most ignorant pride, and become insolent to their dependents. "The arrangement is altogether a most improvident one for society, whose interest it is to produce the greatest amount of wealth of the best qualities; while the existing system of distribution is not only to…
John Stuart Mill, Socialism
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another law, "That such things as cannot be divided, be enjoyed in Common, if it can be; and if the quantity of the thing permit, without Stint; otherwise Proportionably to the number of them that have Right." For otherwise the distribution is Unequall, and contrary to Equitie. The Thirteenth, Of Lot But some things there be, that can neither be divided, nor enjoyed in common.
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
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Related ideas
- John Stuart Mill
- Social choice theory
- Adam Smith
- Neoclassical economics
- Classical economics
- Vilfredo Pareto
- Marxian economics
- Social capital
- David Ricardo
- Economics
- Frank Hahn
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