 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...  The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart - Página 27por Dugald Stewart - 1856Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1886 - 834 páginas
...manufacture has been newly introduced. Here we see at once the fallacy of the dogma, which declares that " if there would be a manifest absurdity in turning...there must be an absurdity, though not altogether so glaring, yet ejuictly of the same kind, in turning towards such an employment a thirtieth or even... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1892 - 914 páginas
...about thirty times the expence for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries. Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation...necessary to purchase from foreign countries an equal [iiantity of the commodities wanted, there must be an ^bsTirdity, though not altogether so glaring,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 498 páginas
...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...there must be an absurdity, though not altogether so glaring, yet exactly of the same kind, in turning towards any such employment a thirtieth, or even... | |
 | 1901 - 686 páginas
...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...and burgundy in Scotland ? But if there would be a absurdity in turning towards any employment thii-- 10083 more of the capital and industry of the country... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 484 páginas
...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...would be a manifest absurdity in turning towards any employemnt thirty times more of the capital and industry of the country than would be necessary to... | |
 | Frank William Taussig - 1909 - 52 páginas
...high. But, as Adam Smith remarked further: " If there would be a manifest absurdity in turning toward any employment thirty times more of the capital and...there must be an absurdity, though not altogether so glaring, yet exactly of the same kind, in turning toward any such employment a sixtieth, or even... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 328 páginas
...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...encourage the making of claret and Burgundy in Scotland ? " 1 See next chapter. In an extreme case like this — or that of Bastiat's candlemakers' petition... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 324 páginas
...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...encourage the making of claret and Burgundy in Scotland 1 " In an extreme case like this — or that of Bastiat's candlemakers' petition against the sun, perhaps... | |
 | Michael Flürscheim - 1909 - 302 páginas
...thirty times the expense for which at .least equally good wine can be brought from foreign countries. Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation...encourage the making of claret and Burgundy in Scotland?" My answer is: If the foreign wine-producing countries will not accept British goods in payment for... | |
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