The merchant and the industrialist. - Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden

Since the earth can yield its cultivator more then he needs for his own subsistence, the surplus can be appropriated by another class. Thus creating an eco system of abundant resources that is expandable.

Robbed of a foundation of political philosophy on which it had based itself, economics is in great danger of becoming a plaything of lordship and its exclusive hold on political services and philosophical concepts.

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