 | Christina Petsoulas - 2001 - 220 páginas
...force behind economic progress is man's natural desire 'to better his condition';159 a desire which 'comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave' and which manifests itself in man's incessant effort to accumulate wealth: 'an augmentation of fortune... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 páginas
...enlightened platform. THE PURSUIT OF WEALTH [T] he desire of bettering our condition, a desire which . . . comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave. ADAM SMITH 1 Britain prospered under the House of Hanover, a consumer society emerged, and enlightened... | |
 | Donna T. Andrew, Randall McGowen - 2001 - 384 páginas
...go with the great stream of life,"74 "The desire of bettering our condition," concluded Adam Smith, "comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave." The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd could scarcely contain their ambition or regulate it by "the principle of... | |
 | Henry S. Turner - 2002 - 324 páginas
...restrained, is in general only momentary and occasional. But the principle which prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which,...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave. ... An augmentation of fortune is the means by which the greater part of men propose and wish to better... | |
 | Andres Marroquin - 2002 - 165 páginas
...restrained, is in general only momentary and occasional. But the principle which prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which,...dispassionate, comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us til we go into the grave Though the principle of expence, therefore, prevails in almost all men upon... | |
 | Richard R. Ellsworth - 2002 - 423 páginas
...pursuit of "bettering our condition" as the strongest and most enduring human motivation, one that "comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave. An augmentation of fortune is the means by which the greater part of men propose and wish to better... | |
 | Martin Cohen - 2003 - 354 páginas
...restrained, is in general only momentary and occasional. But the principle which prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which,...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave . . . Compare that with the 'moral impulse', which even on the most generous estimate would leave a... | |
 | Pierre Force - 2003 - 300 páginas
...have just been made, one could argue that Smith saw the desire to better our condition as an instinct: "a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate,...the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave.""8 However, in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith equates "that great purpose of human life... | |
 | Joel Jay Kassiola - 2003 - 260 páginas
...principle, which prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which thought generally calm and dispassionate comes with us from...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave. In the whole interval which separates these two moments, there is scarce perhaps a single instant in... | |
 | E. Ray Canterbery - 2003 - 314 páginas
...economic self-reliance were perfectly natural, grounded in "the desire of bettering our condition," which "comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave." 4 Economic self-interest is morally beneficial, too: "I have never known much good done," says Smith,... | |
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With regard to profusion, the principle which prompts to expense is the passion for present enjoyment; which, though sometimes violent and very difficult to be restrained, is in general only momentary and occasional. But the principle which prompts to... 
