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... lefs advantageous to employ a capital there than in other places . There was little trade or industryin Edinburgh before the Union . When the Scotch parliament was no longer to be assembled in it , when it ceased to be the necessary ...
... lefs advantageous to employ a capital there than in other places . There was little trade or industryin Edinburgh before the Union . When the Scotch parliament was no longer to be assembled in it , when it ceased to be the necessary ...
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... lefs liable to fuffer by the carriage . An equal quantity of foreign goods , therefore , may frequently be pur- chased with a smaller quantity of the produce of domeftic industry , by the intervention of gold and filver , than by that ...
... lefs liable to fuffer by the carriage . An equal quantity of foreign goods , therefore , may frequently be pur- chased with a smaller quantity of the produce of domeftic industry , by the intervention of gold and filver , than by that ...
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... lefs was to be hoped for from those who occupied the land under them . In the ancient state of Europe , the ocси- piers of land were all tenants at will . They were all or almost all flaves ; but their flavery was of a milder kind than ...
... lefs was to be hoped for from those who occupied the land under them . In the ancient state of Europe , the ocси- piers of land were all tenants at will . They were all or almost all flaves ; but their flavery was of a milder kind than ...
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... lefs than the ordinary profits of stock . He can Thus , upon equal or nearly equal profits , every wholefale merchant naturally prefers the home - trade to the foreign trade of confumption , and the foreign trade of consumption to the ...
... lefs than the ordinary profits of stock . He can Thus , upon equal or nearly equal profits , every wholefale merchant naturally prefers the home - trade to the foreign trade of confumption , and the foreign trade of consumption to the ...
Página 183
... lefs diminished , when it is thus turned away from producing commodities evidently of more value than the commodity which it is directed to pro- duce . According to the fuppofition , that com- modity could be purchased from foreign ...
... lefs diminished , when it is thus turned away from producing commodities evidently of more value than the commodity which it is directed to pro- duce . According to the fuppofition , that com- modity could be purchased from foreign ...
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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.