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... Lisbon , and Copen- hagen , are , perhaps , the only three cities in Europe , which are both the constant residence of a court , and can at the same time be considered as trading cities , or as cities which trade not only for their own ...
... Lisbon , and Copen- hagen , are , perhaps , the only three cities in Europe , which are both the constant residence of a court , and can at the same time be considered as trading cities , or as cities which trade not only for their own ...
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... Lisbon , or from wherever else it was to be had , fifty tons of gold , which could be coined into more than five millions of guineas . But if there were an effectual demand for grain to the same value , to import it would require , at ...
... Lisbon , or from wherever else it was to be had , fifty tons of gold , which could be coined into more than five millions of guineas . But if there were an effectual demand for grain to the same value , to import it would require , at ...
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... Lisbon , and fruit and wine from Lisbon to Konings- berg , must generally be the one half of it at Ko- ningsberg and the other half at Lisbon . No part of it need ever come to Amsterdam . The natural resi- dence of such a merchant ...
... Lisbon , and fruit and wine from Lisbon to Konings- berg , must generally be the one half of it at Ko- ningsberg and the other half at Lisbon . No part of it need ever come to Amsterdam . The natural resi- dence of such a merchant ...
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... Lisbon , Antwerp , Leghorn , & c . they are paid in the common currency of the country . What is called bank money , is al- ways of more value than the same nominal sum of common currency . A thousand guilders in the bank of Amsterdam ...
... Lisbon , Antwerp , Leghorn , & c . they are paid in the common currency of the country . What is called bank money , is al- ways of more value than the same nominal sum of common currency . A thousand guilders in the bank of Amsterdam ...
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Adam Smith. computed exchange has generally been in favour of London with Lisbon , Antwerp , Leghorn , and , if you except France , I believe with most other parts of Europe that pay in common currency ; and it is not improbable that the ...
Adam Smith. computed exchange has generally been in favour of London with Lisbon , Antwerp , Leghorn , and , if you except France , I believe with most other parts of Europe that pay in common currency ; and it is not improbable that the ...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2 Adam Smith Visualização integral - 1791 |
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2 Adam Smith Visualização integral - 1819 |
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2 Adam Smith Visualização integral - 1791 |
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Página 244 - What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.
Página 243 - The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself...
Página 243 - I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it.
Página 471 - 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 488 - 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.
Página 255 - There seem, however, to be two cases in which it will generally be advantageous to lay some burden upon foreign for the encouragement of domestic industry. The first is, when some particular sort of industry is necessary for the defence of the country.
Página 94 - Parsimony, and not industry, is the immediate cause of the increase of capital. Industry, indeed, provides the subject which parsimony accumulates. But whatever industry might acquire, if parsimony did not save and store up, the capital would never be the greater.
Página 16 - ... into three parts; the rent of land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock: and constitutes a revenue to three different orders of people; to those who live by rent...
Página 136 - The capital which sends British goods to Portugal, and brings back Portuguese goods to Great Britain, replaces by every such operation only one British capital. The other is a Portuguese one. Though the returns, therefore, of the foreign trade of consumption should be as quick as those of the home trade, the capital employed in it will give but one half the encouragement to the industry or productive labour of the country.
Página 239 - Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally or, rather, necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society.