Life of Adam SmithW. Scott, 1887 - 161 páginas |
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... persons under no disability were con- cerned ; hardly any political problem can be treated as a single illustration of a simple principle ; the House of Commons not fitted to decide what are really speculative questions ; there is no ...
... persons under no disability were con- cerned ; hardly any political problem can be treated as a single illustration of a simple principle ; the House of Commons not fitted to decide what are really speculative questions ; there is no ...
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... person could now be found to repeat without hesitation the assertion , made more than once by Buckle in his " History of Civilization , " that " The Wealth of Nations " is the most important book ever written . As we become removed by ...
... person could now be found to repeat without hesitation the assertion , made more than once by Buckle in his " History of Civilization , " that " The Wealth of Nations " is the most important book ever written . As we become removed by ...
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... persons who did not in terms profess them . He threw the lessons of modern political economy into a systematic form , and thereby left them advanced a stage in their development . It is as an economist that Smith will be remembered . 14 ...
... persons who did not in terms profess them . He threw the lessons of modern political economy into a systematic form , and thereby left them advanced a stage in their development . It is as an economist that Smith will be remembered . 14 ...
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... persons who understood each other less there would have been real danger of a rivalry not altogether stingless . But there is no trace , so far as we are aware , of any interruption in a sympathy and intercourse which ended only with ...
... persons who understood each other less there would have been real danger of a rivalry not altogether stingless . But there is no trace , so far as we are aware , of any interruption in a sympathy and intercourse which ended only with ...
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... persons of social distinction ; and the wholesome disinclination of the general public to confide the education of the coming generation to in- dividuals whose opinions it did not understand , led to the choice of neither Burke nor Hume ...
... persons of social distinction ; and the wholesome disinclination of the general public to confide the education of the coming generation to in- dividuals whose opinions it did not understand , led to the choice of neither Burke nor Hume ...
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Abbé Morellet abstract Adam Smith agreeable agriculture appears balance of trade became become Britain capital cause character Charon colonies commerce commodity David Hume death doctrine Dugald Stewart Duke of Buccleuch duty Edinburgh edition effect empire employment England essay exchange expense exportation facts foreign free-trade Glasgow gold and silver greater Hume's illustrated imagination individual industry interest Joseph Skipsey kind Kirkcaldy land less letter London manufactures mercantile system metaphysical method mind Moral Sentiments nation of shopkeepers natural price nature never occasion opinion origin particular person philosopher political economy principles produce profit proportion proposition purchase quantity Quesnay References to A. S. regulated rent revenue Ricardo Scotland society sympathy talents tendencies Theory of Moral things tion trade treatise wages of labour Wealth of Nations William Sharp writing
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Página 65 - How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.
Página 108 - As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Página 143 - 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 103 - The word VALUE, it is to be observed, has two different meanings, and sometimes expresses the utility of some particular object, and sometimes the power of purchasing other goods which the possession of that object conveys. The one may be called "value in use;" the other "value in exchange.
Página 111 - It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour. It is not, accordingly, in the richest countries, but in the most thriving, or in those which are growing rich the fastest, that the wages of labour are highest.
Página 149 - If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot be made to contribute towards the support of the whole empire, it is surely time that Great Britain should free herself from the expence of defending those provinces in time of war.
Página 111 - England is certainly, in the present times, a much richer country than any part of North America. The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England.
Página 106 - As soon as stock has accumulated in the hands of particular persons, some of them will naturally employ it in setting to work industrious people, whom they will supply with materials and subsistence, in order to make a profit by the sale of their work, or by what their labour adds to the value of the materials.
Página 120 - By the 5th of Elizabeth, commonly called the Statute of Apprenticeship, it was enacted, that no person should for the future exercise any trade, craft, or mystery at that time exercised in England, unless he had previously served to it an apprenticeship of seven years at least...
Página 100 - The difference of natural talents in different men is in reality much less than we are aware of, and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions when grown up to maturity, is not, upon many occasions, so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour.