The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Том 9T. Constable and Company [etc. ], 1856 |
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... respect to the effectual demand ; and as its actual produce is frequently much greater , and frequently much less than its average produce , the quantity * [ Wealth of Nations , Book I. chap . vii .; Vol . I. p . 86 , tenth edition ...
... respect to the effectual demand ; and as its actual produce is frequently much greater , and frequently much less than its average produce , the quantity * [ Wealth of Nations , Book I. chap . vii .; Vol . I. p . 86 , tenth edition ...
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... respect to the policy of restraints on domestic commerce and industry . [ SUBSECT . II . - Of Restraints on the Commercial Intercourse of Different Nations . ] 66 I shall now proceed to consider the restraints which affect the ...
... respect to the policy of restraints on domestic commerce and industry . [ SUBSECT . II . - Of Restraints on the Commercial Intercourse of Different Nations . ] 66 I shall now proceed to consider the restraints which affect the ...
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... respect to bounties . These are expressly " given to enable merchants and manu- facturers to sell their goods as cheap or cheaper than their rivals in the foreign market . . . . We cannot , it is said , force foreigners to buy our goods ...
... respect to bounties . These are expressly " given to enable merchants and manu- facturers to sell their goods as cheap or cheaper than their rivals in the foreign market . . . . We cannot , it is said , force foreigners to buy our goods ...
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... respect , taking their fallaciousness for granted as a thing too well understood to require any particular illustration , it may not be improper to supply this elementary article of information , by a short statement of the particular ...
... respect , taking their fallaciousness for granted as a thing too well understood to require any particular illustration , it may not be improper to supply this elementary article of information , by a short statement of the particular ...
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... respect , I suppose , we are distinguished , as well as other nations ; and I have before taken notice , that if one nation be by nature more distinguished in this respect than another , as they will , by that means , gain more money ...
... respect , I suppose , we are distinguished , as well as other nations ; and I have before taken notice , that if one nation be by nature more distinguished in this respect than another , as they will , by that means , gain more money ...
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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 222 - In the observation or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.