An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsT. Nelson and sons, 1884 - 445 páginas |
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... maintain in it at all times the greatest possible quantity of happiness , " that Smith supposes the pursuit of self - interest will result in the general benefit of society . " He generally , indeed , neither intends to promote the ...
... maintain in it at all times the greatest possible quantity of happiness , " that Smith supposes the pursuit of self - interest will result in the general benefit of society . " He generally , indeed , neither intends to promote the ...
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... maintaining certain public institutions which it can never be for the interest of any individual or small number of individuals to create and maintain , because the profit could never repay the expense to any individual or small ...
... maintaining certain public institutions which it can never be for the interest of any individual or small number of individuals to create and maintain , because the profit could never repay the expense to any individual or small ...
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... maintaining themselves , but of which the conveniency is nearly confined to some particular place or district ... maintain that in certain cases the interference of Government is desirable . * Even on the question of Free Trade ...
... maintaining themselves , but of which the conveniency is nearly confined to some particular place or district ... maintain that in certain cases the interference of Government is desirable . * Even on the question of Free Trade ...
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... maintain himself till he can carry his work to market , shouid gain both the wages of a jour- neyman who works under a master , and the he has an opportunity of making by the use profit which that master makes by the sale of of the ...
... maintain himself till he can carry his work to market , shouid gain both the wages of a jour- neyman who works under a master , and the he has an opportunity of making by the use profit which that master makes by the sale of of the ...
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... maintain him- recompence or wages of labour . self till he reaps the harvest . His mainte In that original state of things which pre - nance is generally advanced to him from the cedes both the appropriation of land and the stock of a ...
... maintain him- recompence or wages of labour . self till he reaps the harvest . His mainte In that original state of things which pre - nance is generally advanced to him from the cedes both the appropriation of land and the stock of a ...
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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.