The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Bind 9T. Constable and Company [etc. ], 1856 |
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... Industry , SUBSECT . 2. Of Restraints on the Commercial Intercourse of Different Nations , 5 SECT . ii . - Of the Corn Trade , . SUBSECT . 1. - Of the Inland Corn Trade , 285 22 47 48 SUBSECT . 2. - Of the Trade carried on by the ...
... Industry , SUBSECT . 2. Of Restraints on the Commercial Intercourse of Different Nations , 5 SECT . ii . - Of the Corn Trade , . SUBSECT . 1. - Of the Inland Corn Trade , 285 22 47 48 SUBSECT . 2. - Of the Trade carried on by the ...
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... industry and his capital into the freest competition with those of his fellow - citizens . " Every system of policy which endeavours , either by VVERSITY LIBRAR MICHIG OF “ ጥ THE BOOK SECOND OF NATIONAL WEALTH -(CONTINUED CHAPTER PAGE ...
... industry and his capital into the freest competition with those of his fellow - citizens . " Every system of policy which endeavours , either by VVERSITY LIBRAR MICHIG OF “ ጥ THE BOOK SECOND OF NATIONAL WEALTH -(CONTINUED CHAPTER PAGE ...
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... industry a greater share of the capital of the society than what would naturally go to it , or , by extraordinary restraints , to force from a particular species of industry some share of the capital which would otherwise be employed in ...
... industry a greater share of the capital of the society than what would naturally go to it , or , by extraordinary restraints , to force from a particular species of industry some share of the capital which would otherwise be employed in ...
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... Industry . ] I had occasion before to mention Mr. Smith's analysis of the component parts of the price of commodities . The same author observes , that " as the price or exchangeable value of every particular commodity , taken ...
... Industry . ] I had occasion before to mention Mr. Smith's analysis of the component parts of the price of commodities . The same author observes , that " as the price or exchangeable value of every particular commodity , taken ...
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... industry will , in different years , produce very different quantities of commodities , while in others it will pro- duce always the same , or very nearly the same . The same number of labourers in husbandry will , in different years ...
... industry will , in different years , produce very different quantities of commodities , while in others it will pro- duce always the same , or very nearly the same . The same number of labourers in husbandry will , in different years ...
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Side 25 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he 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.
Side 388 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Side 26 - The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Side 27 - By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised- in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries. Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation of all foreign wines merely to encourage the making of claret and burgundy in Scotland...
Side 26 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
Side 223 - 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.
Side 222 - In the observation or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation.
Side 25 - 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...
Side 86 - ... seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board...
Side 222 - Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.