 | Adam Smith - 1811 - Počet stránok 532
...advantageous direction, is not, perhaps, altogether so evident. The general industry of the society never can exceed what the capital of the society can employ....advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - Počet stránok 538
...employed by all the members of a great society must bear a certain proportion to the whole capital of the society, and never can exceed that proportion. No...advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own ad vantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1824 - Počet stránok 1090
...celebrated writers, Smith, Hume, Paley, and Malthus, are uniform. Dr. Adam Smith (2) observes, that " every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment: it is his Own advantage indeed, and not that of society, which he has in view; but the study of his... | |
 | John Gray - 1831 - Počet stránok 400
...advan" tageous methods of employing his capital " and labour. It is true that it is his own " advantage, and not that of the society, " which he has in view ; but a society being " nothing more than a collection of indivi" duals, it is plain that each, in steadily... | |
 | Daniel Bishop - 1835 - Počet stránok 748
...advantageous methods of employing his capital and labour. It is true, that it is his own advantage, and not that of the society, which he has in view ; but a society being nothing more than a collection of individuals, it is plain that each, in steadily pursuing... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1836 - Počet stránok 538
...advantageous direction, is not, perhaps, altogether so evident. The general industry of the society never can exceed what the capital of the society can employ....advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1838 - Počet stránok 476
...can maintain. It can onlv divert a part ef it into a direction into which it might not other « i i' have gone ; and it is by no means certain that this...advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the... | |
 | William Atkinson - 1838 - Počet stránok 96
...following argument, which occurs at the bottom of the same page from which the last quotation is made : " Every individual is continually exerting himself to...advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, that he has in view. But the... | |
 | 1842 - Počet stránok 678
...calculated to induce the reader to go over with him to the free principle. Il is as follows : — ' Every individual is continually exerting himself to...advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But ihe... | |
 | Truth-seeker and present age - 1849 - Počet stránok 540
...supreme. The ' let-alone ' policy is best defended by stating the prineiples upon which it is founded. , Every individual is continually exerting himself to...advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the socicty, which he has in vicw. But the... | |
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Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally,... 
