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" ... the principle which prompts to expense is the passion for present enjoyment, which, though sometimes violent and very difficult to be restrained, is in general only momentary and occasional. But the principle which prompts to save is the desire of... "
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1 - Сторінка 346
автори: Adam Smith - 1869 - 596 стор.
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Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics, and Politics

Elizabeth Campbell Corey - 2006 - 253 стор.
...Nations, where he observes that the human desire to better one's condition is "a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from...whole interval which separates those two moments," he continues, "there is scarce perhaps a single instant in which any man is so perfectly and completely...
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After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai

Heonik Kwon - 2006 - 246 стор.
...parsimony that prompts us to save is "the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave." The Wealth of Nations (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970), p. 305. 51. Marilyn Strathern, The Gender of...
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Aristotle and Hamilton on Commerce and Statesmanship

Michael D. Chan - 2006 - 236 стор.
...the most profitable mode of employment: the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave. . . . The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle...
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Liberty: God's Gift to Humanity

Chana B. Cox - 2006 - 302 стор.
...other-directed. In general, Smith tells us, we have a "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."25 Although these desires may be directed toward merely momentary and personal appetitive gratification,...
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The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought

Mark Goldie, Robert Wokler - 2006 - 944 стор.
...Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776) as 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 379 the grave' (WN, n.iii.28; cf. Saint Lambert 1965, p. 204). The philosophical point of this def1nition...
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Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery

David Warsh - 2006 - 456 стор.
...writes, but humans do it all the time. The wish to better our condition is universal, a desire that "comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave." This self-interested "propensity to truck, barter, and exchange" is the force that makes the system...
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The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith

Knud Haakonssen - 2006 - 442 стор.
...wealth-getting - a theme present in both of Smith's books. The "desire of bettering our condition . . . comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave." Between birth and death one is never "so perfectly and completely satisfied with his condition, as...
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Institutions in Perspective: Festschrift in Honor of Rudolf Richter on the ...

Rudolf Richter - 2006 - 430 стор.
...pointed to "that great purpose of human life which we call bettering our condition,"1 a desire that "comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave."2 Even though humans probably share this striving with most other species, there are three important...
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On Capitalism

2007 - 376 стор.
...principle which prompts us to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave." Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, p. 341. 38. Tocqueville, Democracy in America, p. 280. 39. Abraham Lincoln,...
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Handbook on the Economics of Happiness

L. Bruni - 2007 - 635 стор.
...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...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave' (1776, p. 341). 8. For an extensive analysis of the Smithian argument about the relationship of productive...
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