An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1789 |
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... person has , at any time , been at too great an expence in building , in furniture , in books or pictures , no imprudence can be inferred from his changing his conduct . Thefe are things in which further expence is frequently rendered ...
... person has , at any time , been at too great an expence in building , in furniture , in books or pictures , no imprudence can be inferred from his changing his conduct . Thefe are things in which further expence is frequently rendered ...
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... lowest market rate , fober people are univerfally preferred , as borrowers , to to prodigals and projectors . The person who lends money gets nearly as much interest IV . intereft from the former as he dares to THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF.
... lowest market rate , fober people are univerfally preferred , as borrowers , to to prodigals and projectors . The person who lends money gets nearly as much interest IV . intereft from the former as he dares to THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF.
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... person who has a capital from which he wishes to derive a revenue , without taking the trouble to employ it himself , deliberates whether he fhould buy land with it , or lend it out at intereft . The fuperior fecurity of land , together ...
... person who has a capital from which he wishes to derive a revenue , without taking the trouble to employ it himself , deliberates whether he fhould buy land with it , or lend it out at intereft . The fuperior fecurity of land , together ...
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... person who can acquire no property , can have no other intereft but to eat as much , and to labour as little as poffible . Whatever work he does beyond what is fufficient to pur- chafe his own maintenance , can be squeezed out of him by ...
... person who can acquire no property , can have no other intereft but to eat as much , and to labour as little as poffible . Whatever work he does beyond what is fufficient to pur- chafe his own maintenance , can be squeezed out of him by ...
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... person that acquired it . THE inhabitants of a city , it is true , muft always ultimately derive their fubfiftence , and the whole materials and means of their induftry , from the country . But thofe of a city , fituated near either the ...
... person that acquired it . THE inhabitants of a city , it is true , muft always ultimately derive their fubfiftence , and the whole materials and means of their induftry , from the country . But thofe of a city , fituated near either the ...
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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.