An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen2J.M.Dent & sons, Limited, 1914 - 455 páginas |
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act of parliament advantage afford altogether America ancient ancient Egypt ancient Greece annual produce annuities artificers bounty branches Britain capital carried cent clergy colonies colony trade commerce commodities consequence considerable consumer consumption corn cultivation dealer debt duties East Indies empire employed employment endeavoured England equal established Europe excise expense exportation farmer foreign trade France frequently fund gold and silver greater home market hundred importation imposed improvement increase industry inhabitants interest joint stock company kind labour land land-tax landlord less levied maintain manner manufactures Matthew Decker ment mercantile mercantile system merchants monopoly nations naturally necessarily necessary obliged occasion ordinary paid parliament particular payment perhaps Portugal pound weight present principal profit prohibited proportion provinces public revenue quantity raise regulations render rent Scotland seignorage shillings society sort sovereign Spain standing army supposed surplus produce thousand pounds tion whole
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Página 308 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as Little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Página 307 - 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 110 - 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.
Página 155 - Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production ; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Página 121 - The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind.
Página 181 - ... the duty of erecting and maintaining certain public works and certain public institutions, which it can never be for the interest of any individual, or small number of individuals, to erect and maintain; because the profit could never repay the expense to any individual or small number of individuals, though it may frequently do much more than repay it to a great society.
Página 264 - The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
Página 263 - In the progress of the division of labour, the employment of the far greater part of those who live by labour, that is, of the great body of the people, comes to be confined to a few very simple operations, frequently to one or two.
Página 307 - The subjects of every State ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue they respectively enjoy under the protection of the State .... In the observation or neglect of this maxim, consists what is called the equality 'or inequality of taxation.