 No regulation of commerce can increase the quantity of industry in any society beyond what its capital can maintain. It can only divert a part of it into a direction into which it might not otherwise have gone...  The Economic and Social Problem - 第 126 頁Michael Flürscheim 著 - 1909 - 277 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Bhikhu C. Parekh - 1993 - 384 頁
...the writings included in this edition. 9. Bentham's "Principle" is suggested, as follows, by Smith: "No regulation of commerce can increase the quantity...a part of it into a direction into which it might not otherwise have gone" (Wealth of Nations, Everyman ed., I, p. 398). This principle of "No more trade... | |
 | Roger Backhouse - 276 頁
...the society can employ ... the number of those that can continually be employed by all the members of a great society, must bear a certain proportion to...any society beyond what its capital can maintain. (Smith, 1776, volume I, p. 475) If government regulation could not alter the level of activity, all... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 664 頁
...a great society, must bear a certain proportion to the whole capital of that society, and never can exceed that proportion. No regulation of commerce...a part of it into a direction into which it might not otherwise have gone: and it is by no means certain that this artificial direction is likely to... | |
 | Douglas A. Irwin - 1998 - 290 頁
...clear and immediate implications for policies that aimed to promote certain industries or sectors. "No regulation of commerce can increase the quantity...any society beyond what its capital can maintain," Smith wrote (IV.ii.3). "It can only divert a part of it into a * The (wo classic articles on this theme... | |
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