 | Americo Beviglia Zampetti - 2006 - 231 sider
...natural right'.51 Smith's political ideal was the 'system of natural liberty', in which every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interests in his own way. The basic premise of Smith's model of market capitalism is 'the desire of... | |
 | Thomas O'Brien, Scott Paeth - 2007 - 390 sider
...the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his oirn ¡merest his счт way, and to bring both liis iiuliisiry .nul capital into competition with... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - 2006 - 442 sider
...favour of the masters" (WN, Ixc61). Establishing the "system of natural liberty" under which everyman is "left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way" is thus for Smith a task, rather than something that comes naturally (WN, IV.ix.51). The paradox is... | |
 | Micheline Ishay - 2007 - 590 sider
...the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is...completely discharged from a duty, in the attempting to perform which, he must always be deposed to innumerable delusions, and for the proper performance... | |
 | Edward Stringham - 2007 - 718 sider
...the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every map, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is...completely discharged from a duty, in the attempting to perform which he must always be exposed to innumerable delusions, and for the proper performance... | |
 | Mark Skousen - 2007 - 280 sider
...Note that the following statement by Adam Smith incorporates these three principles: "Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is...competition with those of any other man, or order of men" (1965 [1776], 651, emphasis added). The Benefits of the Invisible Hand Smith argued that these three... | |
 | John W. Casperson - 2007 - 100 sider
...the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is...competition with those of any other man, or order of men." Each of Mr. Smith's statements is as relevant today as they were 230 years ago. That said, the intriguing... | |
 | Michael Lewis - 2007 - 1476 sider
...the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is...completely discharged from a duty, in the attempting to perform which he must always be exposed to innumerable delusions, and for the proper performance... | |
 | Paul M. Rego - 2008 - 256 sider
...regulations of his day with a new system based on natural liberty, or the belief that "every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is...competition with those of any other man, or order of men."17 Like Brands, Fine notes that American hostility to governmental action, especially in economic... | |
 | Nina L. Khrushcheva - 2008 - 256 sider
...have known so little of it) was described by Adam Smith as a state of affairs in which "Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is...competition with those of any other man, or order of men."4 On the other hand, to the centuries-old Russian way of thinking, the individual is inferior... | |
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Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man, or order of men. 
