 | Susan Petrilli - 2007 - 483 sider
...satellites versus the rest. Or, more simply, Europe's conquest of the world. "The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape...events recorded in the history of mankind", Adam Smith wrote in 1776: "What benefits, or what misfortunes to mankind may hereafter result from those great... | |
 | Ronald Findlay, Kevin O'Rourke, Kevin H. O'Rourke - 2007 - 654 sider
..."robust Scottish forthrightness," bluntly declared in his great work that "the discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape...important events recorded in the history of mankind." It might be fashionable today to denounce this view as yet another shocking example of the mortal academic... | |
 | Bhoendradatt Tewarie, Roger Hosein - 2007 - 321 sider
...In particular, Smith noted that, "the discovery of America would be a force for economic development and that of a passage to the East Indies by the cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and important events recorded in the history of mankind" - Smith made this statement because these events... | |
 | M.K.V. Narayan - 2007 - 199 sider
...tradition of adjustability. Why India is poor? Adam Smith once remarked, "The discovery of America and the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope are the two great events recorded in the history of mankind". In the fifteenth century AD, Columbus went westward... | |
 | Lamin O. Sanneh - 2007 - 384 sider
...indigenous populations. He said the discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies via the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events in the history of mankind. Their consequences have already been very great; but in the short period... | |
 | Susan Manning, Francis D. Cogliano - 2008 - 236 sider
...of Nations (1776) he anticipated Price by suggesting iconoclastically that 'the discovery of America and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope', both of which facilitated economic exchange, should be seen as 'the two greatest and most important... | |
 | Michael Lewis - 2007 - 1476 sider
...anything else. Part III Of the Advantages Which Europe Has Derived From the Discovery of America, and from on, too, to the quantity of productive labor which it employs Such are the advantages which the colonies of America have derived from the policy of Europe. What... | |
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The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind. 
