An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsT. Nelson and sons, 1884 - 445 páginas |
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... ancient States of Europe , after the fall of the Roman Empire .... CHAPTER IX . Of the Agricultural Systems , or of those Sys- tems of Political Economy which repre- sent the Produce of Land as either the sole or the principal Source of ...
... ancient States of Europe , after the fall of the Roman Empire .... CHAPTER IX . Of the Agricultural Systems , or of those Sys- tems of Political Economy which repre- sent the Produce of Land as either the sole or the principal Source of ...
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... ancient world , long considered as a most wonderful and dangerous exploit of navigation . It was late before even the Phœnicians and Cartha- ginians , the most skilful navigators and ship- builders of those old times , attempted it ...
... ancient world , long considered as a most wonderful and dangerous exploit of navigation . It was late before even the Phœnicians and Cartha- ginians , the most skilful navigators and ship- builders of those old times , attempted it ...
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... ancient Spartans , copper among the anci . tuations , every prudent man in every period ent Romans , and gold and silver among ali of society , after the first establishment of the rich and commercial nations . division of labour , must ...
... ancient Spartans , copper among the anci . tuations , every prudent man in every period ent Romans , and gold and silver among ali of society , after the first establishment of the rich and commercial nations . division of labour , must ...
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... ancient statute of Henry III . then wastel bread of a and bars of silver , or the Spanish mark which farthing shall ... ancient Saxon not improbable that it may have been as vari- kings of England are said to have been paid , able ...
... ancient statute of Henry III . then wastel bread of a and bars of silver , or the Spanish mark which farthing shall ... ancient Saxon not improbable that it may have been as vari- kings of England are said to have been paid , able ...
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... ancient nearly the same , too , and along with it the rents , originally of considerable value , have , in this manner , been reduced almost to no- thing . Equal quantities of labour will , at distant times , be purchased more nearly ...
... ancient nearly the same , too , and along with it the rents , originally of considerable value , have , in this manner , been reduced almost to no- thing . Equal quantities of labour will , at distant times , be purchased more nearly ...
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Adam Smith advantage afford altogether ancient annual produce bank Bank of England bounty Britain bullion capital carried cattle cent circulating capital circulation clergy coin colonies commerce commodities commonly consequence consumed consumption corn coun cultivation dearer declension demand dities duce duty employed employment England equal established Europe exchange expense exportation farmer France frequently gold and silver greater quantity importation improvement increase industry interest land and labour landlord less maintain manner manufactures ment merchants metals mines money price monopoly nations natural price naturally necessarily necessary neral obliged occasion ordinary paid particular perhaps Peru pound weight pounds present profit proportion proprietors purchase quantity of labour raise regulated render rent revenue rude produce Scotland seems seignorage seldom shillings society sometimes sort sovereign subsistence sufficient supposed tain thing tillage tion tivated value of silver wages wealth Wealth of Nations wheat whole
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Página 13 - I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it.
Página 15 - The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Página 87 - What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.
Página 87 - Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society.
Página 297 - The expense of government to the individuals of a great nation is like the expense of management to the joint tenants of a great estate, who are all obliged to contribute in proportion to their respective interests in the estate. In the observation or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation.
Página 297 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Página 203 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.
Página 3 - That in the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors have for these many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching.
Página 3 - Many improvements have been made by the ingenuity of the makers of the machines, when to make them became the business of a peculiar trade ; and some by that of those who are called philosophers or men of speculation, whose trade it is not to do anything, but to observe everything ; and who, upon that account, are often capable of combining together the powers of the most distant and dissimilar objects.
Página 8 - ... without the assistance and co-operation of many thousands, the very meanest person in a civilized country could not be provided, even according to what we very falsely imagine, the easy and simple manner in which he is commonly accommodated.