An analysis of Adam Smiths' Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, repr., with additions, from the 3rd ed. of J. Joyce's abridgement, revised and ed. by W.P. Emerton, Volume 21880 |
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Page 9
... amounts to a prohibition to all gentlemen and substantial burghers from investing their stock in farming operations on any land but their own . The ancient tenths and fifteenths in England seem to have been taxes of the same nature of ...
... amounts to a prohibition to all gentlemen and substantial burghers from investing their stock in farming operations on any land but their own . The ancient tenths and fifteenths in England seem to have been taxes of the same nature of ...
Page 25
... amount . The funds which maintained the foreign wars of the present century have had little dependence upon the exportation either of circulating money or of the plate of private families , or of the treasure of the prince , but upon ...
... amount . The funds which maintained the foreign wars of the present century have had little dependence upon the exportation either of circulating money or of the plate of private families , or of the treasure of the prince , but upon ...
Page 40
... amount of the treasure of the bank cannot be known , but three millions sterling is probably the ut- most extent , which is quite sufficient to carry on a very extensive circulation . The city of Amsterdam derives considerable revenue ...
... amount of the treasure of the bank cannot be known , but three millions sterling is probably the ut- most extent , which is quite sufficient to carry on a very extensive circulation . The city of Amsterdam derives considerable revenue ...
Page 47
... amount of the whole bounties which have been paid during that period . This has been thought a proof that the forced corn trade is beneficial to the nation , without considering that the bounty is the smallest expense to the society ...
... amount of the whole bounties which have been paid during that period . This has been thought a proof that the forced corn trade is beneficial to the nation , without considering that the bounty is the smallest expense to the society ...
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... amount to a positive loss , consequently the favouring country will gain by the treaty , though less than it would gain by free competi- tion . Some countries have granted treaties of com- merce against themselves , because they ...
... amount to a positive loss , consequently the favouring country will gain by the treaty , though less than it would gain by free competi- tion . Some countries have granted treaties of com- merce against themselves , because they ...
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Adam Smith advantage ÆNEID agriculture America ancient artificers balance of trade bank money Bonamy Price bounty Britain capital cent Church civilised clergy coin College colony trade commerce commodities consumer consumption corn Crown 8vo cultivation debt defrayed duties East India empire employed employment England English equal established Europe expense exportation factures favour foreign trade former France fund gold and silver greater Hertford College importation imposed improvement increase industry interest JAMES THORNTON labour land-tax landlord levied Lord Lord Clive maintain manu manufactures ment mercantile merchants monopoly natural necessary occasion Oxford paid Political Economy Portugal profit prohibition proportion proprietors quantity QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES raise regulated render rent of land restraints revenue Rogers's note Roman ROMAN LAW rude produce seignorage society sovereign Spain Specimen standing army subsistence tenant THOMAS CLAYTON tion Translation Wealth of Nations whole