| Adam Smith - 1811 - 532 Seiten
...alhigherthanthatofthelatter. Light come light go, says the proverb ; and the ordinary tone of expence seems every where to be regulated, not so much according to the real...for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Such statesmen, and such statesmen only, are... | |
| Adam Smith - 1811 - 538 Seiten
...that of the latter. Light come, light go, says the proverb ; and the ordinary tone of expense §eems everywhere to be regulated, not so much according...of raising up a people of customers, may at first appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for... | |
| Adam Smith - 1819 - 532 Seiten
...not so much according to the real ability of spending, as to the supposed facility of getting mone^ to spend. It is thus that the single advantage which...for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Such statesmen, and such statesmen only, are... | |
| 1820 - 632 Seiten
...manufactures which they will create in return. Mr. Malthus speaks indeed of the impolicy of ' founding a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers ;' but neither the means nor the end to which his remarks apply are the same as those now under consideration... | |
| Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 Seiten
...that the single advantage which the monopoly procures to a single order of men, is in many ditlerent ways hurtful to the general interest of the country....for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Such statcMiien, and such statesmen only, are... | |
| Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart - 1843 - 762 Seiten
...than that of the former, and a good deal higher than that of the latter. Light come light go, says the proverb; and the ordinary tone of expense seems everywhere...for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Such statesmen, and such statesmen only, are... | |
| George Richardson Porter - 1843 - 500 Seiten
...describes the origin of this spirit of monopoly with regard to the trade with our colonies : — " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Such statesmen, and such statesmen only, are... | |
| 1888 - 668 Seiten
...again, Adam Smith, in his ' Wealth of Nations' (1775, and in octavo edition, 1602, ii. 439), said, " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers." In neither of these cases, however, was the term "shopkeeper" applied contemptuously. This was reserved... | |
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