 | Nicolas Spulber - 2003 - 448 頁
...to mind an appropriate remark of Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations: It is thus that every system which endeavours, either, by extra-ordinary encouragements,...subversive of the great purpose which it means to promote. It retards, instead of accelerating, the progress of the society towards real wealth and greatness;... | |
 | Adam Smith - 2004 - 260 頁
...gain by the trade, though less than if there was a free competition .... It is thus that every system which endeavours, either, by extraordinary encouragements,...subversive of the great purpose which it means to promote. It retards, instead of accelerating, the progress of the society towards real wealth and greatness;... | |
 | Mark C. Schug, Jean Caldwell, Donald R. Wentworth, Beth Kraig, Robert J. Highsmith - 1993 - 176 頁
...particular species of industry a greater share of the capital of the society than what would naturally go to it, is in reality subversive of the great purpose which it means to promote. It retards, instead of accelerating, the progress of the society towards real wealth and greatness:... | |
 | Jörg Guido Hülsmann - 2007 - 1143 頁
...to draw toward a particular species of industry a greater share of the capital of the society than would naturally go to it; or, by extraordinary restraints,...subversive of the great purpose which it means to promote. It retards, instead of accelerating, the progress of the society toward real wealth and greatness;... | |
 | Michael Shermer - 2008 - 346 頁
...particular species of industry a greater share of the capital of the society than would naturally go to it ... is, in reality, subversive of the great purpose which it means to promote." Read "animal" for "man" and "population" for "people," and we have a perfect description of natural... | |
 | Michael Lewis - 2007 - 1476 頁
...end, discourage their own favorite species of industry. It is thus that every system which endeavors, either, by extraordinary encouragements to draw towards...subversive of the great purpose which it means to promote. It retards, instead of accelerating the progress of the society towards real wealth and greatness;... | |
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It is thus that every system which endeavours, either, by extraordinary encouragements, to draw towards a particular species of industry a greater share of the capital of the society than what would naturally go to it; or, by extraordinary restraints,... 
