 Political economy, considered as a branch of the science of a statesman or legislator, proposes two distinct objects: first, to provide a plentiful revenue or subsistence for the people, or more properly to enable them to provide such a revenue or subsistence...  From Adam Smith to the Wealth of America - Page 211by Alvin Rabushka - 1985 - 237 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1913 - 658 pages
...the worse but all the better from the point of view of pure science, but, when they are applied to ' political economy considered as a branch of the science of a statesman or legislator' (Adam Smith), or to the ' art of political economy ' (Sidgwick), they fall for the most part into the... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - Arts - 1914 - 510 pages
...economy, and the nearest approach to such a definition is found in the first sentence of the fourth book: "Political economy, considered as a branch of the...legislator, proposes two distinct objects: first, to supply a plentiful revenue or subsistence for the people, or, more properly, to enable them to provide... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - Arts - 1914 - 506 pages
...sentence of the fourth book: "Political economy, considered as a branch of the 1 Harvard Classics. Vol. x. science of a statesman or legislator, proposes two distinct objects: first, to supply a plentiful revenue or subsistence for the people, or, more properly, to enable them to provide... | |
 | Arthur Kitson - Banks and banking - 1917 - 302 pages
...has proved it to be. The object of the science was defined by Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations : " Considered as a branch of the science of a statesman or legislator, political economy proposes two distinct objects. First, to supply a plentiful subsistence for the people,... | |
 | Economics - 1919 - 740 pages
...this science are almost identical with the one given by Adam Smith. "Political economy ", he says, " proposes two distinct objects ; first to provide a...people, or more properly, to enable them to provide a plentiful revenue or subsistence for themselves; and secondly, to supply the state or commonwealth... | |
 | Arthur Kitson - Currency question - 1921 - 116 pages
...years ago in which he sought to prove that no vessel built oi steel or iron could possibly float ! " Considered as a branch of the science of a statesman or legislator, political economy," wrote Adam Smith, ' proposes two distinct objects : — First, to supply a plentiful... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess - Social sciences - 1924 - 802 pages
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 | Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, Henry Higgs - Economics - 1926 - 886 pages
...branch of the art of government is definitely retained by Adam Smith. "Political economy," he says, "proposes two distinct objects : first to provide...people, or more properly, to enable them to provide a revenue or subsistence for themselves ; and secondly, to supply the state or common weal with a revenue... | |
 | Economics - 1927 - 820 pages
...Economic Review Vol. XVII. DECEMBER, 1927 No. 4 RUBBER: A CASE STUDY The more practical problems of "political economy, considered as a branch of the science of a statesman or legislator" arise less from deficiencies in the amount of knowledge available than from the difficulty of persuading... | |
 | Civil service - 1898 - 540 pages
...lengthen. 9. descend. 19. inheritance. 10. completely. 20. elevation. DICTATION. Date, October 6, 1897. Political Economy, considered as a branch of the science...legislator, proposes two distinct objects: first, to supply a plentiful revenue or subsistence for the people, or, more properly, to enable them to provide... | |
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