It is evident that Proudhon is more of a doctrinaire than a theorist: science is not concerned with morals and only studies facts. Society is a product of circumstances; its transformation is a political and not a scientific problem. He adds that gambling diverts money from productive applications and produces, via the workings of the stock market, a meaningless assessment of the use of capital: the official accounts of the service of market-specialists in Paris recorded 80 million francs in commission during the year 1850; according to Proudhon, this implies a total of transactions of 64 billion of which, he.
