| Adam Smith - 1811 - 532 pages
...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 - Economics - 1811 - 538 pages
...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 - Commercial law - 1824 - 1090 pages
...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 - Economics - 1831 - 400 pages
...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 - Christian sociology - 1835 - 748 pages
...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 - 538 pages
...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 - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...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 - Economic history - 1838 - 96 pages
...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 - 678 pages
...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 - 540 pages
...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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