An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 第 2 卷S. Doig and A. Stirling, Lackington, Allen and Company, Cradock and Joy, and T. Hamilton, London, and Wilson and Son, York, 1811 |
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Adam Smith. APPENDIX . Account of Herring Busses fitted out in Scotland , the Amount of their Cargoes , and the Bounties on them Account of Foreign Salt imported into Scotland , and of Scotch Salt delivered duty - free , for the Herring ...
Adam Smith. APPENDIX . Account of Herring Busses fitted out in Scotland , the Amount of their Cargoes , and the Bounties on them Account of Foreign Salt imported into Scotland , and of Scotch Salt delivered duty - free , for the Herring ...
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... amount of the metal pieces , which some writers have computed , or rather have supposed , to circulate in that country . But when we say that a man is worth fifty or a hundred pounds a - year , we mean commonly to express , not only the ...
... amount of the metal pieces , which some writers have computed , or rather have supposed , to circulate in that country . But when we say that a man is worth fifty or a hundred pounds a - year , we mean commonly to express , not only the ...
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... , it is because the amount of those pieces regulates the extent of his power of purchasing , or the value of the goods which he can annually afford to consume . We still consider his revenue as con- CH . II . 23 OF MONEY .
... , it is because the amount of those pieces regulates the extent of his power of purchasing , or the value of the goods which he can annually afford to consume . We still consider his revenue as con- CH . II . 23 OF MONEY .
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... amount of the metal pieces which are annually paid to an individual , is often precisely equal to his revenue , and is upon that acccount the shortest and best expression of its va- lue . But the amount of the metal pieces which ...
... amount of the metal pieces which are annually paid to an individual , is often precisely equal to his revenue , and is upon that acccount the shortest and best expression of its va- lue . But the amount of the metal pieces which ...
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... amount of eight hundred thousand pounds , will be sent abroad , and the channel of home circulation will remain filled with a million of paper , instead of a million of those metals which filled it before . But though so great a ...
... amount of eight hundred thousand pounds , will be sent abroad , and the channel of home circulation will remain filled with a million of paper , instead of a million of those metals which filled it before . But though so great a ...
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第 241 頁 - 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.
第 105 頁 - 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.
第 241 頁 - What is the species of domestic industry which his capital can employ, and of which the produce is likely to be of the greatest value, every individual, it is evident, can, in his local situation, judge much better than any statesman or lawgiver can do for him. The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals...
第 363 頁 - The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle, that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often incumbers its operations...
第 237 頁 - Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily, leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society...
第 119 頁 - Britain, for example, was fixed so high as eight or ten per cent. the greater part of the money which Avas to be lent, would be lent to prodigals and projectors, who alone would be willing to give this high interest. Sober people, who will give for the use of money no more than a part of what they are likely to make by the use of it, would not venture into the competition.
第 486 頁 - The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind.
第 154 頁 - They are founded upon the most absurd of all suppositions, the supposition that every successive generation of men have not an equal right to the earth, and to all that it possesses; but that the property of the present generation should be restrained and regulated according to the fancy of those who died perhaps five hundred years ago.
第 94 頁 - Parsimony, and not industry, is the immediate cause of the increase of capital. Industry, indeed, provides the subject which parsimony accumulates. But whatever industry might acquire, if parsimony did not save and store up, the capital would never be the greater.
第 228 頁 - It carries out that surplus part of the produce of their land and labor for which there is no demand among them and brings back in return for it something else for which there is a demand. It gives a value to their superfluities by exchanging them for something else which may satisfy a part of their wants and increase their enjoyments.