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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... pounds a - year , we mean commonly to express , not only the amount of the metal pieces which are an- nually paid to him , but the value of the goods which he can annually purchase or consume ; we mean commonly to ascertain what is or ...
... pounds a - year , we mean commonly to express , not only the amount of the metal pieces which are an- nually paid to him , but the value of the goods which he can annually purchase or consume ; we mean commonly to ascertain what is or ...
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... pounds . As those notes serve all the purposes of money , his debtors pay him the same interest as if he had lent ... pounds , twenty thousand pounds in gold and silver may , frequently , be a sufficient provision for answering ...
... pounds . As those notes serve all the purposes of money , his debtors pay him the same interest as if he had lent ... pounds , twenty thousand pounds in gold and silver may , frequently , be a sufficient provision for answering ...
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... pounds for answering occasional demands ; there would remain therefore , in circulation , eight hundred thousand pounds in gold and silver , and a million of bank notes , or eighteen hundred thousand pounds of pa- per and money together ...
... pounds for answering occasional demands ; there would remain therefore , in circulation , eight hundred thousand pounds in gold and silver , and a million of bank notes , or eighteen hundred thousand pounds of pa- per and money together ...
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... pounds are poured into it . Eight hundred thousand pounds , therefore , must overflow , that sum being over and above what can be employed in the circulation of the country . But though this sum cannot be employed at home , it is too ...
... pounds are poured into it . Eight hundred thousand pounds , therefore , must overflow , that sum being over and above what can be employed in the circulation of the country . But though this sum cannot be employed at home , it is too ...
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... pounds for example ) , to any in- dividual who could procure two persons of undoubt- ed credit and good landed ... pounds upon it , for example , may repay this sum piece . meal , by twenty and thirty pounds at a time C 2 CH . II . 85 OF ...
... pounds for example ) , to any in- dividual who could procure two persons of undoubt- ed credit and good landed ... pounds upon it , for example , may repay this sum piece . meal , by twenty and thirty pounds at a time C 2 CH . II . 85 OF ...
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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.