An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsP. F. Collier & son, 1909 - 590 頁 |
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... Bounties · 392 VII . Of Colonies VI . Of Treaties of Commerce VIII . Conclusion of the Mercantile System IX . Of the Agricultural Systems , or of the Systems of Political Economy , Which Represent the Produce of Land as Either the Sole ...
... Bounties · 392 VII . Of Colonies VI . Of Treaties of Commerce VIII . Conclusion of the Mercantile System IX . Of the Agricultural Systems , or of the Systems of Political Economy , Which Represent the Produce of Land as Either the Sole ...
第 346 頁
... bounties , sometimes by advantageous treaties of commerce with foreign states , and sometimes by the es- tablishment of colonies in distant countries . Drawbacks were given upon two different occasions . When the home manufacturers were ...
... bounties , sometimes by advantageous treaties of commerce with foreign states , and sometimes by the es- tablishment of colonies in distant countries . Drawbacks were given upon two different occasions . When the home manufacturers were ...
第 347 頁
... Bounties were given for the encouragement either of some beginning manufactures , or of such sorts of industry of other kinds as were supposed to deserve particular favour . By advantageous treaties of commerce , particular privi- leges ...
... Bounties were given for the encouragement either of some beginning manufactures , or of such sorts of industry of other kinds as were supposed to deserve particular favour . By advantageous treaties of commerce , particular privi- leges ...
第 356 頁
... bounty against im- provement . To any country which was highly improved throughout , it would be more advantageous to import its lean cattle than to breed them . The province of Holland , accordingly , is said to follow this maxim at ...
... bounty against im- provement . To any country which was highly improved throughout , it would be more advantageous to import its lean cattle than to breed them . The province of Holland , accordingly , is said to follow this maxim at ...
第 357 頁
... bounty upon corn occasions a greater exportation in years of plenty , so it must of consequence occasion a greater im- portation in years of scarcity , than in the actual state of tillage would otherwise take place . By means of it ...
... bounty upon corn occasions a greater exportation in years of plenty , so it must of consequence occasion a greater im- portation in years of scarcity , than in the actual state of tillage would otherwise take place . By means of it ...
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第 315 頁 - ... intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.* Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it.
第 137 頁 - People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices.
第 442 頁 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
第 11 頁 - But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day...
第 129 頁 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
第 20 頁 - It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their selflove, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.
第 52 頁 - As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
第 22 頁 - The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and education.
第 137 頁 - But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary.
第 17 頁 - What a variety of labour, too, is necessary in order to produce the tools of the meanest of those workmen! To say nothing of such complicated machines as the ship of the sailor, the mill of the...