An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1Methuen & Company, 1904 - 506 páginas |
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Página 8
... less than it really costs to send them to market . But if the bounty did not repay to the merchant what he would otherwise lose upon the price of his goods , his own interest would soon oblige him to employ his stock in another way , or ...
... less than it really costs to send them to market . But if the bounty did not repay to the merchant what he would otherwise lose upon the price of his goods , his own interest would soon oblige him to employ his stock in another way , or ...
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... less advantage- ous than that in which it would run of its own accord : and , secondly , to the particular objection of forcing it , not only into a channel that is less advantageous , but into one that is actually disadvantageous ; the ...
... less advantage- ous than that in which it would run of its own accord : and , secondly , to the particular objection of forcing it , not only into a channel that is less advantageous , but into one that is actually disadvantageous ; the ...
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... less the improvement of their own lands , which necessarily depends upon the general industry of the country . To encourage the production of any commodity , a bounty upon pro- duction , one should imagine , would have a more direct ...
... less the improvement of their own lands , which necessarily depends upon the general industry of the country . To encourage the production of any commodity , a bounty upon pro- duction , one should imagine , would have a more direct ...
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... less than ten thousand pounds was subscribed into the capital of each , to be managed at its own risk , and for its own profit and loss . The same annuity , and the same encouragements of all kinds , were given to the trade of those ...
... less than ten thousand pounds was subscribed into the capital of each , to be managed at its own risk , and for its own profit and loss . The same annuity , and the same encouragements of all kinds , were given to the trade of those ...
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... less advan- tageous channels , but encourage perfection . But though it can very seldom be reasonable to tax the industry of the great body of the people , in order to support that of some particu- lar class of manufacturers ; yet in ...
... less advan- tageous channels , but encourage perfection . But though it can very seldom be reasonable to tax the industry of the great body of the people , in order to support that of some particu- lar class of manufacturers ; yet in ...
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Página 267 - The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
Página 159 - Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production ; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Página 185 - ... the duty of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies ; secondly, the duty of protecting, as far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice or oppression of every other member of it...
Página 184 - The sovereign 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 of which no human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient; the duty of superintending the industry of private people, and of directing it towards the employments most suitable to the interest of the society.
Página 114 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Página 273 - The more they are instructed, the less liable they are to the delusions of enthusiasm and superstition, which, among ignorant nations, frequently occasion the most dreadful disorders. An instructed and intelligent people, besides, are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
Página 312 - Fourthly, by subjecting the people to the frequent visits and the odious examination of the tax-gatherers, it may expose them to much unnecessary trouble, vexation, and oppression; and though vexation is not, strictly speaking, expense, it is certainly equivalent to the expense at which every man would be willing to redeem himself from it.
Página 207 - Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none .at alL...
Página 152 - To hurt in any degree the interest of any one order of citizens, for no other purpose but to promote that of some other, is evidently contrary to that justice and equality of treatment which the sovereign owes to all the different orders of his subjects.
Página 246 - The only trades which it seems possible for a joint stock company to carry on successfully, without an exclusive privilege, are those, of which all the operations are capable of being reduced to what is called a routine, or to such a uniformity of method as admits of little or no variation.