The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nationsT. Cadell, 1811 |
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... smaller or greater proportion of it is in any one year employed in maintaining unproductive hands , the more in the one cafe and the less in the other will remain for the productive , and the next year's produce will be greater or smaller ...
... smaller or greater proportion of it is in any one year employed in maintaining unproductive hands , the more in the one cafe and the less in the other will remain for the productive , and the next year's produce will be greater or smaller ...
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... small capitals . These , however , must have yielded very large profits . The rate of interest was no - where less that ten per cent . , and their profits must have been sufficient to afford this great interest . At present the rate of ...
... small capitals . These , however , must have yielded very large profits . The rate of interest was no - where less that ten per cent . , and their profits must have been sufficient to afford this great interest . At present the rate of ...
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... small part of the whole number engaged in trade , and all other forts of business ; not much more perhaps than one in a thousand . Bankruptcy is perhaps the greatest and most humiliating cala- mity which can befal an innocent man . The ...
... small part of the whole number engaged in trade , and all other forts of business ; not much more perhaps than one in a thousand . Bankruptcy is perhaps the greatest and most humiliating cala- mity which can befal an innocent man . The ...
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... smaller , and to the more confiderable portion , it is itself altogether different from what is affigned by it . In proportion as that share of the annual pro- duce which , as foon as it comes either from the ' ground , or from the ...
... smaller , and to the more confiderable portion , it is itself altogether different from what is affigned by it . In proportion as that share of the annual pro- duce which , as foon as it comes either from the ' ground , or from the ...
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... smaller quantity of money , but that smaller quantity might purchase a greater quantity of goods than a greater had done before . The profits of stock would be diminished both really and in appearance . The whole capital of the country ...
... smaller quantity of money , but that smaller quantity might purchase a greater quantity of goods than a greater had done before . The profits of stock would be diminished both really and in appearance . The whole capital of the country ...
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Página 182 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
Página 181 - ... every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it.
Página 1 - THERE is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed: there is another which has no such effect. The former, as it produces a value, may be called productive; the latter, unproductive labour.
Página 181 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security ; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain; and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 182 - To give the monopoly of the home market to the produce of domestic industry, in any particular art or manufacture, is in some measure to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals; and must in almost all cases be either a useless or a hurtful regulation.
Página 16 - It tends therefore to increase the exchangeable value of the annual produce of the land and labour of the country. It puts into motion an additional quantity of industry, which gives an additional value to the annual produce.
Página 186 - Whether the advantages which one country has over another be natural or acquired, is in this respect of no consequence. As long as the one country has those advantages, and the other wants them, it will always be more advantageous for the latter rather to buy of the former than to make.
Página 22 - The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived...
Página 80 - According to the natural course of things, therefore, the greater part of the capital of every growing society is, first, directed to agriculture, afterwards to manufactures,. and last of all to foreign commerce.
Página 456 - The assembly which deliberates and decides concerning the affairs of every part of the empire, in order to be properly informed, ought certainly to have representatives from every part of it. That this union, however, could be easily effectuated, or that difficulties and great difficulties might not occur in the execution, I do not pretend. I have yet heard of none, however, which appear insurmountable.