Great Britain from Adam Smith to the Present Day: An Economic and Social SurveyLongmans, Green and Company, Limited, 1928 - 458 páginas "Selected reading": p. 443-444. |
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... Europe the commerce and manu- factures of cities , instead of being the effect , have been the cause and occasion of the improvement and cultivation of the country ( I. 390 ) . Admiring the country gentleman and farmer , ' to their ...
... Europe the commerce and manu- factures of cities , instead of being the effect , have been the cause and occasion of the improvement and cultivation of the country ( I. 390 ) . Admiring the country gentleman and farmer , ' to their ...
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... Europe proved to their profit . And Adam Smith seems to have felt this ; for in the Conclusion of the Mercantile System , ' which first appears in the third edition , he does not revert to the doctrine of the trade balance , but ...
... Europe proved to their profit . And Adam Smith seems to have felt this ; for in the Conclusion of the Mercantile System , ' which first appears in the third edition , he does not revert to the doctrine of the trade balance , but ...
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... European war . But after 1783 there was peace in North America , and therefore between 1783 and 1789 there were years of peace in Europe and America , during which the precepts of the book might be tried in foreign relations . ' 1 In ...
... European war . But after 1783 there was peace in North America , and therefore between 1783 and 1789 there were years of peace in Europe and America , during which the precepts of the book might be tried in foreign relations . ' 1 In ...
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... Europe was indirectly checked . The exigencies of war - the Seven Years War ( 1756-63 ) , the American War ( 1776-83 ) and the long French Wars ( 1793-1815 ) -so overburdened and distorted the British tariff that in the interest of ...
... Europe was indirectly checked . The exigencies of war - the Seven Years War ( 1756-63 ) , the American War ( 1776-83 ) and the long French Wars ( 1793-1815 ) -so overburdened and distorted the British tariff that in the interest of ...
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... European Power . In the first two France was the enemy , in the third Germany . The war with Louis XIV ended in ... Europe . To secure for his / country internal and external stability was the dual purpose of his life . For the ...
... European Power . In the first two France was the enemy , in the third Germany . The war with Louis XIV ended in ... Europe . To secure for his / country internal and external stability was the dual purpose of his life . For the ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
18th century abolished Adam Smith agricultural amalgamation America Anti-Corn Law League Bank of England bankers became Birmingham Boulton and Watt Britain British canal capital co-operative coal colonies commercial Committee Company competition Corn Laws districts duty East India economic English Europe Excise export factory farmers farming favour foreign trade free trade funds Gladstone Glasgow gold Government Huskisson important improved increase industrial revolution invented Ireland iron joint stock labour Lancashire land Liverpool London Lord machine machinery Manchester manufacturers ment merchants Midland million mills monopoly North operation organised Parliament Peel Pitt Poor Law port production protection railways raw material reform repeal revenue road Scotland Section secured ships silk Society South steamship steel supply tariff taxation textile tion to-day towns Trade Unions traffic turnpike trust Vict wages Wales Watt West wheat woollen workers
Passagens conhecidas
Página 9 - The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertions, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
Página 15 - It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.
Página 14 - The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle that it is alone and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations...
Página 14 - 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 9 - As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Página 10 - But whether their combinations be offensive or defensive, they are always abundantly heard of. In order to bring the point to a speedy decision, they have always recourse to the loudest clamour and sometimes to the most shocking violence and outrage. They are desperate and act with the folly and extravagance of desperate men who must either starve or frighten their masters into an immediate compliance with their demands.
Página 19 - In that early and rude state of society, which precedes both the accumulation of stock and the appropriation of land, the proportion between the quantities of labour necessary for acquiring different objects seems to be the only circumstance which can afford any rule for exchanging them for one another.
Página 16 - As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.
Página 51 - In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent.
Página 274 - ... somewhat nearer to a level commensurate with the preceding ones, and thus rescue the trade from the trammels which have so long surrounded it. Before concluding these remarks, I beg to call your attention to an important fact connected with the new process, which affords peculiar facilities for the manufacture of cast steel.