passiveness

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Edward Dowden, in a sonnet, Wise Passiveness, says this plainly:   Think you I choose or that or this to sing?

From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Atkins, Elizabeth

Cf. the chapter on "The Passiveness of Prices," where it is shown that the capitalization theory and the quantity theory are irreconcilable.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

In a later chapter, on "The Passiveness of Prices," I shall examine the doctrine of Professor Fisher more closely, and set these two views in clearer contrast.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.