...Nations, where he observes that the human desire to better one's condition is "a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from...whole interval which separates those two moments," he continues, "there is scarce perhaps a single instant in which any man is so perfectly and completely...

...parsimony that prompts us to save is "the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave." The Wealth of Nations (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970), p. 305. 51. Marilyn Strathern, The Gender of...

...the most profitable mode of employment: the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave. . . . The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle...

...other-directed. In general, Smith tells us, we have a "desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from...the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave."25 Although these desires may be directed toward merely momentary and personal appetitive gratification,...

...Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776) as the 'desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into 379 the grave' (WN, n.iii.28; cf. Saint Lambert 1965, p. 204). The philosophical point of this def1nition...

...writes, but humans do it all the time. The wish to better our condition is universal, a desire that "comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave." This self-interested "propensity to truck, barter, and exchange" is the force that makes the system...

...wealth-getting - a theme present in both of Smith's books. The "desire of bettering our condition . . . comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave." Between birth and death one is never "so perfectly and completely satisfied with his condition, as...

...pointed to "that great purpose of human life which we call bettering our condition,"1 a desire that "comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave."2 Even though humans probably share this striving with most other species, there are three important...

...principle which prompts us to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave." Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, p. 341. 38. Tocqueville, Democracy in America, p. 280. 39. Abraham Lincoln,...

...the principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave' (1776, p. 341). 8. For an extensive analysis of the Smithian argument about the relationship of productive...