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Review: Great Books of the Western WorldRecensione dell'utente - Helle - GoodreadsGobbled it up as a little kid in the 70's. Leggi recensione completa Review: Great Books of the Western WorldRecensione dell'utente - GoodreadsI have been reading these books since I got them back in the early 60s'. I still have a long way to go. Between being in the army and working and being a single parent I have little time. But, now ... Libri correlati
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Parole e frasi comuniact of navigation advantageous afford altogether America annual produce augment balance of trade bank money bank of England bills bills of exchange bounty branches of trade Britain bullion capital employed carrying trade cent circulating capital coin colony trade commerce commodities consequence consumed corn coun cultivation dealers demand distant duce duties East Indies employment encouragement England equal established Europe European exchange expence exportation farmer favour foreign trade France frequently gold and silver greater quantity guilders home market importation improvement increase industry inhabitants interest land and labour less maintain manner manufactures ment merchant monopoly mother country nations naturally necessarily obliged occasion paid paper money particular perhaps Portugal pound weight productive labour profit prohibition proportion proprietor provinces of France purchase rent revenue Scotland seignorage sell society sometimes sort Spain subsistence supposed surplus produce tion tivation trade of consumption wealth wine Brani popolariPagina 264 - To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should ever be established in it. Not only the prejudices of the public, but what is much more unconquerable, the private interests of many individuals, irresistibly oppose it. Pagina 482 - The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind. Pagina 94 - Parsimony, and not industry, is the immediate cause of the increase of capital. Industry, indeed, provides the subject which parsimony accumulates. But whatever industry might acquire, if parsimony did not save and store up, the capital would never be the greater. Pagina 16 - ... into three parts; the rent of land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock: and constitutes a revenue to three different orders of people; to those who live by rent... Pagina 123 - The capital employed in agriculture, therefore, not only puts into motion a greater quantity of productive labour than any equal capital employed in manufactures, but in proportion, too, to the quantity of productive labour which it employs, it adds a much greater value to the annual produce of the land and labour of the country, to the real wealth and revenue of its inhabitants. Of all the ways in which a capital can be employed, it is by far the most advantageous to the society. Pagina 150 - Had human institutions, therefore, never disturbed the natural course of things, the progressive wealth and increase of the towns would, in every political society, be consequential, and in proportion to the improvement and cultivation of the territory or country. Pagina 239 - 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 society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally or, rather, necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society. Pagina 363 - The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle, that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity... Pagina 83 - There is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed: there is another which has no such effect. The former, as it produces a value, may be called productive; the latter, unproductive labour. Pagina 69 - It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country. That part of his capital which a dealer is obliged to keep by him unemployed, and in ready money for answering occasional demands, is so much dead stock, which, so long as it remains in this situation, produces nothing either to him or to his country. The judicious... 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