What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of... The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review - 第 147 頁1860完整檢視 - 關於此書
| Gerald M. Meier - 2004 - 264 頁
...private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better...employed in a way in which we have some advantage. (1776: bk. 4, ch. 2) Smith also viewed foreign trade as providing a "vent-for-surplus": When the produce... | |
| Walter C. Clemens - 2004 - 772 頁
...Government efforts to keep out foreign products are misguided. "If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better...employed in a way in which we have some advantage." Still, Smith approved government intervention in three cases: (1) Defense: Britain should try to give... | |
| Denis Patrick O'Brien - 2004 - 458 頁
...private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better...industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.3 The advantage of buying from the cheapest source was then one of the major advantages of... | |
| Myles J. Kelleher - 2004 - 346 頁
...private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better...buy it of them with some part of the produce of our industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage. If other nations are willing to sell us... | |
| Michael Crane - 2004 - 652 頁
...with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, we had better buy it of them with some part of our own industry, employed in a way in which we...some advantage. The general industry of the country will not thereby be diminished, but only left to find out the way in which it can be employed with... | |
| Anne-Wil Harzing, Joris Van Ruysseveldt - 2004 - 522 頁
...supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can meke it, better buy it of them with some pert of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage. (Adam Smith, 1776: 424-425} There was one problem with this theory, however. What if a country has... | |
| Samuel Fleischacker - 2009 - 352 頁
...private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them. (WN 456-7)10 Smith wants economics to make ready sense to us; he wants to show how its fundamental... | |
| Mathias M. Siems - 2005 - 612 頁
...private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better...employed in a way in which we have some advantage."), 107 Dazu z. B. Larsson (2001 ); Norberg (2003), einen unilateralen Politikstil verfolgt oder protektionistische... | |
| Raymond W. Baker - 2005 - 288 頁
...neighbors are all rich, industrious and commercial nations."21 "If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better...industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage."22 Monopolies in any form act to raise prices. "The price of monopoly is upon every occasion... | |
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