 | John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 872 頁
...needs by the labor of his own hands; hence the division of labor. Likewise the accumulation of capital: "The principle which prompts to save is the desire...which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from the womb and never leaves us until we go into the grave."'1 Thus by following his own... | |
 | Joyce Appleby - 1984 - 126 頁
...through The Wealth of Nations. There Smith attributed the principle which prompts people to save to the desire of "bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave." "In the whole interval which... | |
 | Stephen Gudeman, Alberto Rivera - 1990 - 224 頁
..."principle" (pp. 362-3): The principle which prompts to expence, is the passion for present enjoyment; which, though sometimes violent and very difficult to be...our condition, a desire which, though generally calm . . . never leaves us ... the principle of frugality seems not only to predominate, but to predominate... | |
 | William Harold Hutt - 1990 - 392 頁
...wealth, and the desire that one's children shall retain their family status;" and * Adam Smith said that 'the principle which prompts to save, is the desire...which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave'. (Wealth of Nations, Cannan Edition,... | |
 | Joel Jay Kassiola - 1990 - 320 頁
...propensity in human nature to "truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another." 19 He adds: ... the principle which prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which thought generally calm and dispassionate comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go... | |
 | Pierre Guillet de Monthoux - 1993 - 334 頁
...an inborn urge to self-betterment that continues throughout life: "[T]he principle which prompts us to save, is the desire of bettering our condition,...which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave."35 It is this deep and usually... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 664 頁
...tendencies he inferred from the activities of men. One could and should count upon: (a) the universal "desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave";61 and (b) "the obvious and simple... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - 1995 - 292 頁
...compensated by the frugality and good conduct of others." For the motivation to save came from that powerful "desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave." 27 The real danger to commercial... | |
 | John Leonard - 1996 - 94 頁
...principle which prompts to expence, is the passion for present enjoyment; which, although sometimes very violent and very difficult to be restrained, is in...which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from he womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave. In the whole interval which separates... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - 1996 - 578 頁
...manufacturers to introduce the division of labor into their production systems. "The principle that prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which . . . comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave. In the whole interval... | |
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But the principle which prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave. 
