| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Trade - 1985 - 296 páginas
...family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy. The taylor does not attempt •to make his own shoes, but buys...not attempt to make his own clothes, but employs a taylor. The farmer attempts to make neither the one nor the other, but employs those different artificers.... | |
| Henry William Spiegel - 1991 - 904 páginas
...absolute advantage. 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. The taylor does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker. The shoemaker does not... | |
| James Maitland Earl of Lauderdale - 1996 - 184 páginas
...generally be hurtful. 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. The taylor [sic] does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker. The shoemaker... | |
| George T. Crane, Abla Amawi - 1997 - 354 páginas
...generally be hurtful. 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. The taylor does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker. The shoemaker does not... | |
| Lars Magnusson - 1997 - 472 páginas
...does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them from a shoemaker; the shoemaker, on his part, does not attempt to make his own clothes, but employs a tailor; and the farmer makes neither the one nor the other, but obtains them in exchange for corn and cattle.... | |
| N. Gregory Mankiw - 1998 - 532 páginas
...Smith put the argument: It is a 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....to make his own clothes but employs a tailor. The fanner attempts to make neither the one nor the other, but employs those different artificers. All... | |
| Morris Altman - 2006 - 548 páginas
...be used in them. Chapter 1.4 Business Outreach Beyond the State The taylor does not attempt to mend his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker. The...not attempt to make his own clothes, but employs a taylor. —Adam Smith, 1776 Shanghai's high taxes and credit crunch harmed efforts to develop new technology... | |
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