 | James C. W. Ahiakpor - 2003 - 278 頁
...virtue of saving at the community level, just as Keynes (1936: 36 In) quotes Adam Smith to have argued: "What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great Kingdom."1- Although the classical savings theory of growth is sensible, the algebraic and diagrammatic... | |
 | William Schweiker, Charles T. Mathewes - 2004 - 432 頁
...way most economists do their job is to ask, Where's the prudence? Adam Smith asserted in 1776 that "what is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom."12 A splendidly useful principle. The blessed Smith, however, understood that we do want people... | |
 | Alison Watson - 2004 - 170 頁
...to do so, a principle that he also applied to the management of the world economy: what is prudent in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. Thus, just as government intervention in the domestic economy should be kept to a minimum, so too states,... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 頁
...in which they have some advantage over their neighbours, and to purchase with a part of its produce, or, what is the same thing, with the price of a part...family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. GOD SAVE THE KING "God Save the King" was first arranged and performed during the Jacobite Uprising... | |
 | David F. Noble - 2005 - 224 頁
...exchange for those commodities it lacks rather than trying to produce them all itself, Smith declares, "What is prudence in the conduct of every private...family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom." But the theological note had been sounded, and it would reverberate for centuries to come. Smith's... | |
 | Deirdre Nansen McCloskey - 2010 - 637 頁
...was beginning in that decade to worry that they might not suffice. Adam Smith asserted in 1776 that "what is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom."4 A splendidly useful principle. Hardheaded. No talk of love, or of any other virtue than... | |
 | Dewett K.K. & Navalur M.H. - 2010 - 992 頁
...employ their industry in a way in which they have some advantage over their neighbours." And he adds, "What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of great kingdom." In short, the free trade theory is that such a policy enables every country to devote... | |
 | Bruce Smith - 2006 - 461 頁
...with the price of a part of it, whatever else they have occasion for. What is prudence,' he added, 'in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom."2 It is not my province to enter here into this wide controversy, but merely to set forth... | |
 | Mark Skousen - 2007 - 280 頁
...down. An expansion of trade between Britain and France, for example, would enable both nations to gain. "What is prudence in the conduct of every private...family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom," declared Smith. "If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can... | |
 | Bryan Caplan - 2008 - 293 頁
...have found so enduringly objectionable. In The Wealth of Nations, Smith admonishes his countrymen: What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can... | |
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... and to purchase with a part of its produce, or, what is the same thing, with the price of a part of it, whatever else they have occasion for. What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. 
