| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1925 - 622 Seiten
...ridiculous to take any pains to prove it.' 90 In the second, with the same crushing air of certitude : ' Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production ; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting... | |
| Margaret Pryor - 1927 - 396 Seiten
...place of consumption in orthodox political economy was formally pointed out when Adam Smith wrote: "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting... | |
| Earl Willis Crecraft - 1928 - 528 Seiten
...Smith conceded the importance of protecting the con- / sumer when he made the following observation: "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production, and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1929 - 1776 Seiten
...willing to admit the soundness of the philosophy propounded by Adam Smith in 1775, when he said, ' Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production, and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only in so far as it may be necessary for promoting... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents - 1932 - 598 Seiten
...hand. this one by Adam Smith, the father of economics, who In his famous Wealtli of Nations said : " Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production, and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that... | |
| United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce - 1942 - 656 Seiten
...ago the undesirable effect of obstacles to free trade was pointed out by Adam Smith, when he wrote: "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting... | |
| John Brewer, Roy Porter - 1993 - 660 Seiten
...it took him until Book IV to say it, Smith placed consumption at the heart of modern market society. Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting... | |
| John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 716 Seiten
...consumption as a kind of final end-all of economic activity. As he put it in The Wealth of Nations: Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting... | |
| Deirdre N. McCloskey - 1994 - 468 Seiten
...1776 [1981], V, i, f, p. 782). What is good is specialization and then trade. As Smith also observed, "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting... | |
| Daniel Roche - 1996 - 564 Seiten
...magnificence. FA Garsault, L'Art du tailleur 4. Towards an understanding of the Parisian clothing system Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production, and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that... | |
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