An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1789 |
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... return for their confumption . That portion which he annually faves , as for the fake of the profit it is immediately employed as a capital , is confumed in the fame manner , and nearly in the fame time too , but by a different fet of ...
... return for their confumption . That portion which he annually faves , as for the fake of the profit it is immediately employed as a capital , is confumed in the fame manner , and nearly in the fame time too , but by a different fet of ...
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... return fhall , during the continuance of the loan , annually affign to the lender a fmaller portion , called the interest ; and at the end of it , a portion equally confiderable with that which had originally been affigned to him ...
... return fhall , during the continuance of the loan , annually affign to the lender a fmaller portion , called the interest ; and at the end of it , a portion equally confiderable with that which had originally been affigned to him ...
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... return at least an equal value of other commodities . When both are the produce of domestic industry , it neceffarily re- places by every fuch operation two diftinct capi- tals , which had both been employed in support- ing productive ...
... return at least an equal value of other commodities . When both are the produce of domestic industry , it neceffarily re- places by every fuch operation two diftinct capi- tals , which had both been employed in support- ing productive ...
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... returns of the foreign trade of con- fumption are very feldom fo quick as those of the home - trade . The returns of the home - trade generally come in before the end of the year , and fometimes three or four times in the year . The returns ...
... returns of the foreign trade of con- fumption are very feldom fo quick as those of the home - trade . The returns of the home - trade generally come in before the end of the year , and fometimes three or four times in the year . The returns ...
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... returns are likely to be still more diftant , as they must de- pend upon the returns of two or three diftinct foreign trades . If the flax and hemp of Riga are purchased with the tobacco of Virginia , which had been purchased with ...
... returns are likely to be still more diftant , as they must de- pend upon the returns of two or three diftinct foreign trades . If the flax and hemp of Riga are purchased with the tobacco of Virginia , which had been purchased with ...
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Página 175 - ... 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 175 - 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 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, is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.
Página 16 - Every increase or diminution of capital, therefore, naturally tends to increase or diminish the real quantity of industry, the number of productive hands, and consequently the exchangeable value of the annual produce of the land and labour of the country, the real wealth and revenue of all its inhabitants.
Página 19 - ... comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave.
Página 176 - 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 162 - By opening a more extensive market for whatever part of the produce of their labour may exceed the home consumption, it encourages them to improve its productive powers, and to augment its annual produce to the utmost, and thereby to increase the real revenue and wealth of the society.
Página 438 - If it was adopted, however, Great Britain would not only be immediately freed from the whole annual expense of the peace establishment of the colonies, but might settle with them such a treaty of commerce as would effectually secure to her a free trade, more advantageous to the great body of the people, though less so to the merchants, than the monopoly which she at present enjoys.
Página 177 - 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 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.