The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Volume 9T. Constable and Company [etc. ], 1856 |
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... occasion before to mention Mr. Smith's analysis of the component parts of the price of commodities . The same author observes , that " as the price or exchangeable value of every particular commodity , taken separately , resolves itself ...
... occasion before to mention Mr. Smith's analysis of the component parts of the price of commodities . The same author observes , that " as the price or exchangeable value of every particular commodity , taken separately , resolves itself ...
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... occasion to touch on the rent of land , the political regulations I have in view tending chiefly to affect wages and profit in the different employments of labour and stock . In order to convey a distinct idea of the manner in which ...
... occasion to touch on the rent of land , the political regulations I have in view tending chiefly to affect wages and profit in the different employments of labour and stock . In order to convey a distinct idea of the manner in which ...
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... occasion considerable inequali- ties in the wages of labour and the profits of stock , occasion none in the whole of the advantages and disadvantages , real or imaginary , of the different employments of either . This distribution ...
... occasion considerable inequali- ties in the wages of labour and the profits of stock , occasion none in the whole of the advantages and disadvantages , real or imaginary , of the different employments of either . This distribution ...
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... occasions in some cases a very inconvenient inequality in the whole of the advantages and disadvantages of their different employments . " The statute of apprenticeship obstructs the free circulation of labour from one employment to ...
... occasions in some cases a very inconvenient inequality in the whole of the advantages and disadvantages of their different employments . " The statute of apprenticeship obstructs the free circulation of labour from one employment to ...
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... occasion a rise or fall in the course of the Exchange , inde- pendent of the amount of goods actually exported and imported . Notwithstanding the fallacy of the modes of ascertaining the proportional value of commodities exported and im ...
... occasion a rise or fall in the course of the Exchange , inde- pendent of the amount of goods actually exported and imported . Notwithstanding the fallacy of the modes of ascertaining the proportional value of commodities exported and im ...
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Page 25 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security ; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Page 388 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 26 - The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Page 27 - By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised- in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries. Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation of all foreign wines merely to encourage the making of claret and burgundy in Scotland...
Page 26 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
Page 223 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Page 222 - In the observation or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation.
Page 25 - No regulation of commerce can increase the quantity of industry in any society beyond what its capital can maintain. It can only divert a part of it into a direction into which it might not otherwise have gone...
Page 86 - ... seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board...
Page 222 - Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.