...of Nations. As he looked back on what had happened during the past three centuries, he declared that "the discovery of America and that of a passage to the East Indies by way of the Cape of Good Hope are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history...

...Asia in it. Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations in 1776: The discovery of America, and that of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest events recorded in the history of mankind. (Smith [1776] 1937: 557) Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto...

...proclaimed it in the birth year of the American Republic: "The discovery of America, and that of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest events recorded in the history of mankind."2 Today, as this vision shoulders aside a rival that claims...

...credited with being the founder of economics, was to say some three centuries later that it was one of 'the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind'.1 Having risen to the stature of a towering figure on the national firmament, Vasco da Gama...

...Ernest J Burrus, 1971 P, 105). Ähnlich schrieb Adam Smith in seiner "Inquiry" (Book IV, Ch. VII): "The discovery of America, and that of a passage to...important events recorded in the history of mankind" (1868, 258). Weitere Äusserungen zu weltgeschichtlichen Wenden werden in Kap. 171 F, Anm. 2 und Kap....

...taking place becomes evident when we contrast Johnson's statement with Adam Smith's conclusion that the "discovery of America and that of a passage to...important events recorded in the history of mankind." 17 Hegel's view (as will be seen) is similar, and the felicities of chronology do indeed call for the...

...taking place becomes evident when we contrast Johnson's statement with Adam Smith's conclusion that the "discovery of America and that of a passage to...and most important events recorded in the history of mankind."17 Hegel's view (as will be seen) is similar, and the felicities of chronology do indeed call...

...emergence of a global market? ECONOMIC GROWTH Adam Smith famously declared in the Wealth of Nations that "the discovery of America, and that of a passage to...important events recorded in the history of mankind." He reasoned that by "uniting, in some measure, the most distant parts of the world, by enabling them...

...sixteenth century. 8 Mantran 1987, 1433-39. 9 In his famous chapter on colonies, Adam Smith noted that "the discovery of America and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind" (Smith 1993, 363). to circumnavigate...

..."discovery" of the Americas and the passage to the East Indies by way of the Cape of Good Hope were "the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind" even though their full consequences were as yet unknown. By uniting distant parts of the world, facilitating...