But nothing in the narrative asserts or even hints this, and what we do know is in the opposite direction.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
On the contrary, he actually makes use of the expression, "the natural laws of political economy," and asserts that, when they are once sufficiently known, all that is then needed to guide economic politics is to obtain exact and reliable statistics of the situation to which they are to be applied.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
But the tendency in wages to such a minimum, which he asserts to be everywhere recognised, is really not recognised at all.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae