The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Volume 9T. Constable and Company [etc. ], 1856 |
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... Smith's general principle , that in the same society or neighbourhood , the market price of commodities has always a tendency to adjust itself to the natural price . " The quantity of every commodity brought to market , " says Mr. Smith ...
... Smith's general principle , that in the same society or neighbourhood , the market price of commodities has always a tendency to adjust itself to the natural price . " The quantity of every commodity brought to market , " says Mr. Smith ...
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... Smith refers to three heads , first , particular accidents , which give one society of men an advantage over others in supplying the markets ; secondly , local peculiarities of soil and climate ; and , thirdly , particular regulations ...
... Smith refers to three heads , first , particular accidents , which give one society of men an advantage over others in supplying the markets ; secondly , local peculiarities of soil and climate ; and , thirdly , particular regulations ...
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... Smith into a very few sentences . According to him , the wages of labour vary by relation to— " 1. The ease or hardship , cleanness or dirtiness , honourable- ness or dishonourableness of the employment . " 2. The easiness and cheapness ...
... Smith into a very few sentences . According to him , the wages of labour vary by relation to— " 1. The ease or hardship , cleanness or dirtiness , honourable- ness or dishonourableness of the employment . " 2. The easiness and cheapness ...
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... Smith as more particularly deserving of attention . " First , by restraining the competition in some employments to a smaller number than would otherwise be disposed to enter into them ; secondly , by increasing it in others beyond what ...
... Smith as more particularly deserving of attention . " First , by restraining the competition in some employments to a smaller number than would otherwise be disposed to enter into them ; secondly , by increasing it in others beyond what ...
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... Smith has said on the subject in the third and fourth chapters of his Third Book , concerning the rise and progress of cities and towns after the fall of the Roman Empire . On the same subject , too , a great deal of most important and ...
... Smith has said on the subject in the third and fourth chapters of his Third Book , concerning the rise and progress of cities and towns after the fall of the Roman Empire . On the same subject , too , a great deal of most important and ...
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Página 25 - 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 388 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Página 26 - The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Página 27 - By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised- in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries. Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation of all foreign wines merely to encourage the making of claret and burgundy in Scotland...
Página 26 - 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 223 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Página 222 - In the observation or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation.
Página 25 - No regulation of commerce can increase the quantity of industry in any society beyond what its capital can maintain. It can only divert a part of it into a direction into which it might not otherwise have gone...
Página 86 - ... seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board...
Página 222 - Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.