The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Lectures on political economy ... To which is prefixed part third of the Outlines of moral philosophy. 1855.56T. Constable and Company, 1856 |
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... existing laws on the subject of importation . But I was un- willing to interrupt the general reasoning with local details ; and it appeared to me more advisable to delay any historical statements that I had to offer with respect to ...
... existing laws on the subject of importation . But I was un- willing to interrupt the general reasoning with local details ; and it appeared to me more advisable to delay any historical statements that I had to offer with respect to ...
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... existing manuscripts of these Lectures . At the risk of a little repetition , these further observations this contingency , Sir James Steuart was long ago led 136 POLITICAL ECONOMY . - PART I. — BOOK II . — NAT . WEALTH .
... existing manuscripts of these Lectures . At the risk of a little repetition , these further observations this contingency , Sir James Steuart was long ago led 136 POLITICAL ECONOMY . - PART I. — BOOK II . — NAT . WEALTH .
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... existing laws ; and they are supported by an authority justly entitled to the highest respect on all questions of Political Economy , that of Mr. Adam Smith . * Indeed , I do not recollect that any writer of note ( excepting the two ...
... existing laws ; and they are supported by an authority justly entitled to the highest respect on all questions of Political Economy , that of Mr. Adam Smith . * Indeed , I do not recollect that any writer of note ( excepting the two ...
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... existing laws is precisely the reverse of this . The creditor has it in his power to ruin him , and he has it not in his power to obtain such a compensation . On the contrary , if the debtor has recourse to law , and resolves to fight ...
... existing laws is precisely the reverse of this . The creditor has it in his power to ruin him , and he has it not in his power to obtain such a compensation . On the contrary , if the debtor has recourse to law , and resolves to fight ...
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... existing institutions , by diverting small capitals from the purchase and improvement of land , contribute , more than any other single cause , to depress agricultural industry below the level of other employments of capital and labour ...
... existing institutions , by diverting small capitals from the purchase and improvement of land , contribute , more than any other single cause , to depress agricultural industry below the level of other employments of capital and labour ...
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Сторінка 387 - 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.
Сторінка 24 - ... 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. By pursuing his own interest, he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.
Сторінка 25 - 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 our oWn industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.
Сторінка 24 - 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.
Сторінка 222 - 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.
Сторінка 460 - Sed cum omnia ratione animoque lustraris, omnium societatum nulla est gravior, nulla carior quam ea, quae cum re publica est uni cuique nostrum. Cari sunt parentes, cari liberi, propinqui, familiares, sed omnes omnium caritates patria una complexa est, pro qua quis bonus dubitet mortem oppetere, si ei sit profuturus?
Сторінка 85 - ... 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...
Сторінка 207 - And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he...
Сторінка 207 - Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
Сторінка 7 - When the price of any commodity is neither more nor less than what is sufficient to pay the rent of the land, the wages of the labour, and the profits of the stock employed in raising, preparing, and bringing to market, according to their natural rates, the commodity is then sold for what may be called its natural price.