The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nationsT. Cadell, 1811 |
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Side 22
... ment to thofe machines and inftruments which facilitate and abridge labour ; or of a more pro- per divifion and diftribution of employment . In either cafe an additional capital is almost always required . It is by means of an ...
... ment to thofe machines and inftruments which facilitate and abridge labour ; or of a more pro- per divifion and diftribution of employment . In either cafe an additional capital is almost always required . It is by means of an ...
Side 30
... ment of preceding bad conduct . Few , there- fore , of those who have once been fo unfortunate as to launch out too far into this fort of expence , III . have afterwards the courage to reform , till have 30 OF PRODUCTIVE AND ...
... ment of preceding bad conduct . Few , there- fore , of those who have once been fo unfortunate as to launch out too far into this fort of expence , III . have afterwards the courage to reform , till have 30 OF PRODUCTIVE AND ...
Side 37
... ment of different loans to three , or for the fame reafon , to thirty times their value , fo they may likewife fucceffively ferve as the inftrument of repayment . A capital lent at intereft may , in this manner , be confidered as an ...
... ment of different loans to three , or for the fame reafon , to thirty times their value , fo they may likewife fucceffively ferve as the inftrument of repayment . A capital lent at intereft may , in this manner , be confidered as an ...
Side 58
... ment , they would retard instead of accelerating the further increase in the value of their annual produce , and would obftruct instead of promot- ing the progrefs of their country towards real wealth and greatnefs . This would be ftill ...
... ment , they would retard instead of accelerating the further increase in the value of their annual produce , and would obftruct instead of promot- ing the progrefs of their country towards real wealth and greatnefs . This would be ftill ...
Side 78
... ment and cultivation of the territory or country . In our North American colonies , where un- cultivated land is still to be had upon eafy terms , no manufacturers for diftant fale have eyer yet been established in any of their towns ...
... ment and cultivation of the territory or country . In our North American colonies , where un- cultivated land is still to be had upon eafy terms , no manufacturers for diftant fale have eyer yet been established in any of their towns ...
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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.