The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nationsT. Cadell, 1811 |
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Side 8
... seems , three or four times greater than the whole had been before . In the progrefs of improvement , rent , though it increases in proportion to the extent , dimi . nishes in proportion to the produce of the land . In the opulent ...
... seems , three or four times greater than the whole had been before . In the progrefs of improvement , rent , though it increases in proportion to the extent , dimi . nishes in proportion to the produce of the land . In the opulent ...
Side 11
... seems to produce the wine fitteft for exportation , or best fuited to the taste of foreign nations . Such advantageous fituations neceffarily attract a great capital by the great employment which they afford it ; and the employment of ...
... seems to produce the wine fitteft for exportation , or best fuited to the taste of foreign nations . Such advantageous fituations neceffarily attract a great capital by the great employment which they afford it ; and the employment of ...
Side 39
... seems fo plaufible , has been fo fully exposed by Mr. Hume , that it is , perhaps , un- neceffary to fay any thing more about it . The following very fhort and plain argument , how- ever , may ferve to explain more diftinctly the fal ...
... seems fo plaufible , has been fo fully exposed by Mr. Hume , that it is , perhaps , un- neceffary to fay any thing more about it . The following very fhort and plain argument , how- ever , may ferve to explain more diftinctly the fal ...
Side 64
... seems even to have one advantage over any other equally round - about foreign trade . The tranf portation of thofe metals from one place to an- other , on account of their small bulk and great value , is lefs expenfive than that of ...
... seems even to have one advantage over any other equally round - about foreign trade . The tranf portation of thofe metals from one place to an- other , on account of their small bulk and great value , is lefs expenfive than that of ...
Side 69
... seem to be the natural cause of it . Those statesmen who have been disposed to fa- vour it with particular eacouragements , feem to have mistaken the effect and symptom for the caufe . Holland , in proportion to the extent of the land ...
... seem to be the natural cause of it . Those statesmen who have been disposed to fa- vour it with particular eacouragements , feem to have mistaken the effect and symptom for the caufe . Holland , in proportion to the extent of the land ...
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The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nations Adam Smith Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1811 |
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Side 181 - ... every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it.
Side 181 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security ; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain; and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Side 16 - It tends therefore to increase the exchangeable value of the annual produce of the land and labour of the country. It puts into motion an additional quantity of industry, which gives an additional value to the annual produce.
Side 2 - That subject, or, what is the same thing, the price of that subject, can afterwards, if necessary, put into motion a quantity of labour equal to that which had originally produced it. The labour of the menial servant, on the contrary, does not fix or realize itself in any particular subject or vendible commodity. His services generally perish in the very instant of their performance, and seldom leave any trace or value behind them for which an equal quantity of service could afterwards be procured.
Side 182 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
Side 186 - Whether the advantages which one country has over another be natural or acquired, is in this respect of no consequence. As long as the one country has those advantages, and the other wants them, it will always be more advantageous for the latter rather to buy of the former than to make.
Side 484 - It is a very singular government in which every member of the administration wishes to get out of the country, and consequently to have done with the government, as soon as he can, and to whose interest, the day after he has left it and carried his whole fortune with him,* it is perfectly indifferent though the whole country was swallowed up by an earthquake.
Side 244 - Commerce, which ought naturally to be, among nations as among individuals, a bond of union and friendship, has become the most fertile source of discord and animosity.
Side 22 - The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived...
Side 80 - According to the natural course of things, therefore, the greater part of the capital of every growing society is, first, directed to agriculture, afterwards to manufactures,. and last of all to foreign commerce.