Eric Roll citations

Eric Roll est un économiste, universitaire et banquier anglais.

Il a été professeur d'économie et commerce à l'université de Hull. Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il a été directeur adjoint de la British Food Mission . Il a représenté le Royaume-Uni au Congrès de Paris concernant le Plan Marshall.

Membre du Parti travailliste depuis 1964, il a été Permanent Secretary du nouveau Department of Economic Affairs.

Il a été aussi chef de la Bank of England de 1968 à 1977, président de la banque d'affaires SG Warburg, et directeur de The Times.

Il a été enfin président du Groupe Bilderberg de 1986 à 1989. Wikipedia

✵ 1. décembre 1907 – 30. mars 2005

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Eric Roll: Citations en anglais

“The system is shown not to be self-adjusting. Unless a large class of unproductive consumers was maintained, periodic over-production and stagnation would inevitably occur.”

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Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden

Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter V, Reaction And Revolution, p. 208
Contexte: One thing which is striking in Malthus's theory is his insistence on contradictions and conflicts in the capitalist system. The system is shown not to be self-adjusting. Unless a large class of unproductive consumers was maintained, periodic over-production and stagnation would inevitably occur. For the first time, in English economic theory at any rate, the possibility of crises arising from causes inherent in the capitalist system was admitted.

“The expenses of the royal household, wars, and lavish public building were financed by tolls and the profits of the king's foreign trade monopoly, by conscription of labour and heavy taxation. The results were impoverishment of the masses, alienation of land, and the development of a proletariat.”

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Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter I, The Beginnings, p. 25

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

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Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter IV, The Classical System, p. 193

“Whatever his merits as an economist, Hume's place as one of the foremost exponents of capitalism is clearly established. His views on the landed interest and his recognition of self-interest and his desire for accumulation as the driving forces of economic activity in his time helped to consolidate the forces that were struggling to add political power to the economic supremacy which they had already achieved.”

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Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter III, The Founders Of Political Economy, p. 123

“Utility alone is the cause of value.”

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Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter VIII, Modern Economics, p. 400

“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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Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter I, The Beginnings, p. 41 ( See also.. 1 Corinthians 3 - 9.. KJV )

“In its origins the utility school was strongly influenced by a desire to strengthen the potentially apologetic character of economics.”

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Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter VIII, Modern Economics, p. 370

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

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Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter V, Reaction And Revolution, p. 220

“Aristotle laid the foundation of the distinction between use-value andexchange-value, which has remained a part of economic thought to the present day.”

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Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter I, The Beginnings, p. 34-35

“The physiocrats started a train of thought which was a powerful stimulus to the development of a labour theory of value and surplus value. They did not, however develop such a theory of value themselves. What attention they gave to the problem of exchange-value and price produced results of an altogether different character. Thus while one of their contributions finds its continuation in Smith, Ricardo, and Marx, the other leads to the post-classical supply and demand and utility theories of value.”

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Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter III, The Founders Of Political Economy, p. 135

“The merchant created the industrialist.”

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Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter III, The Founders Of Political Economy, p. 97

“Ricardo, writing fifty years later than Smith, showed a greater insight into the working of the economic system; but as for the subtlety (whatever demerit there may be in that!) the Scot does not lose by comparison with the Jew.”

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Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter IV, The Classical System, p. 176

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

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Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter III, The Founders Of Political Economy, p. 101

“Marx's prognosis of the future of the capitalist system has often been understood to imply a fatalistic view. Marx's own life should be enough to show that this is not so. Marx did not regard man as the impotent plaything of supernatural; but he thought that man could not ignore the laws of physical nature.”

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Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter VI, Marx, p. 295

“Ideas appropriate to a past social order have a strange power of influencing thought and action within a later institutional frame work.”

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Introduction, p. 17
A History of Economic Thought (1939)

“The chronological inconsistencies are perhaps most clearly exemplified by the writings of Nicole Oresme. In his Traictie de la Premierere Invention des Monnies, written about 1360, he develops a theory of money which reveals a very different approach to economic problems from that of his fellow Churchmen.”

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Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter I, The Beginnings, p. 53

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

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Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter VII, The Transition, p. 312

“It is generally conceded that mercantile capitalism preceded and prepared the ground for modern industrial capitalism.”

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Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter II, Commercial Capitalism and its Theory, p. 65

“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.”

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Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter VI, Marx, p. 266

“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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Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter IV, The Classical System, p. 154

“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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Conclusion, p. 414
A History of Economic Thought (1939)

“Mill sought to strengthen his defence of trade unions not by denying their possible monopoly effects, but by an appeal to the principle of laisser faire itself. To prevent the formation of corporate unions was, he thought, to interfere with a right obviously included in the general rule of freedom of contract.”

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Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter VII, The Transition, p. 357

“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.”

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Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter V, Reaction And Revolution, p. 243

“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.”

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Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden

Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter V, Reaction And Revolution, p. 231

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