 | Mark Goldie, Robert Wokler - History - 2006 - 944 pages
...opulence for the sake of national security: 'As defence ... is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England' (WN, 1v.ii.3o). He would also have endorsed what Smith had to say in his sections on defence and education... | |
 | Richard Little, Michael Smith - Political Science - 2006 - 458 pages
...defending the Navigation Acts, Smith declared: 'As defence is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.'" Waltz summarizes the point by saying that 'in anarchy there is no automatic harmony'.' Yet this insight... | |
 | Richard Little, Michael Smith - Political Science - 2006 - 452 pages
...defending the Navigation Acts, Smith declared: 'As defence is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.'2 Waltz summarizes the point by saying that 'in anarchy there is no automatic harmony'. J... | |
 | Robert B. Louden Professor of Philosophy University of Southern Maine - Philosophy - 2007 - 340 pages
...which can arise from it." But he insists that "as defence ... is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England" (WN IV.ii.30; cf. II. V.30, IV.va27, 36). Additional acts of legislation designed to protect other... | |
 | Michael Lewis - Economic policy - 2007 - 1476 pages
...was a more perfect freedom of trade. As defense, however, is of much more importance than opulence, and consequently The second case, in which it will generally be advantageous to lay some burden upon foreign for the... | |
 | Bhikhu C. Parekh - Political Science - 1993 - 384 pages
...that opulence which can arise from it As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England" (429). These inconsistencies in the Smithian system were fought by Bentham. "In my own view of the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1820 - 738 pages
...explaining this point, be concludes thus : " As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.'' This testimony is the more valuable, as coming from the mouth of an unwilling witness, one of the greatest... | |
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As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England. 
