| Tobias Smollett - 1776 - 526 páginas
...and it is not certain that this artificial direction is likely to be more advantageous to the fociety than that into which it would have gone of its own accord. Dr. Smith obferves, that to prohibit by a perpetual law the importation of foreign corn and cattle,... | |
| Adam Smith - 1786 - 538 páginas
...by no means certain that this artificial direction is likely to be more advantageous to the fociety than that into which it would have gone of its own accord. EvERY individual is continually exerting himfelf to find out the moft advantageous employVOL. II. N ment K ment for whatever capital he can... | |
| Adam Smith - 1811 - 852 páginas
...by no means certain that this artificial direction is likely to be more advantageous to the fociety than that into which it would have gone of its own accord. Every individual is continually exerting himfelf to find out the mofl advantageous employVOL. in. N merit BOOK ment for whatever capital he... | |
| 1811 - 558 páginas
...statesmen have also concurred in the opinion, that such an artificial direction, is less advantageous to society, than that into which it would have gone, of its own accord. Whatever diversity of sentiment some particular and leading features of the system of the French economists... | |
| Joseph Chitty - 1824 - 1090 páginas
...celebrated writers, Smith, Hume, Paley, and Malthus, are uniform. Dr. Adam Smith (2) observes, that " every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment: it is his Own advantage indeed, and not that of society, which he has in view; but the study of his... | |
| 1824 - 884 páginas
...Britain is forced by the monopoly of the colony trade, is, therefore, a less advantageous employment than that into which it would have gone of its own accord. We have stated this train of reasoning, which hitherto has passed with political economists as conclusive,... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1826 - 302 páginas
...have gone; but it is not always certain that this artificial direction will be more advantageous to society, than that into which it would have gone of...individual is continually exerting himself to find out 4he most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage indeed,... | |
| Jean Baptiste Say - 1827 - 522 páginas
...otherwise have gone; and it is by no means certain, that this artificial direction is likely to be more advantageous to the society, than that into which it would have gone of its own accord. — The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ... | |
| Jean Baptiste Say - 1827 - 522 páginas
...otherwise have gone; and it is by no means certain, that this artificial direction is likely to be more advantageous to the society, than that into which it would have gone of its own accord. — -The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ... | |
| Jean Baptiste Say - 1832 - 530 páginas
...otherwise have gone; and it is by no means certain, that this artificial direction is likely to be more advantageous to the society, than that into which it would have gone of its own accord.—The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ... | |
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