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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... direct that industry that the produce may be of the greatest possible value . The produce of industry is what adds ... direct private people how to employ their capitals . But to give the monopoly of the home - market to the produce of ...
... direct that industry that the produce may be of the greatest possible value . The produce of industry is what adds ... direct private people how to employ their capitals . But to give the monopoly of the home - market to the produce of ...
Page 42
... direct foreign trade , the other a roundabout trade . All countries exchange with one another partly native and partly foreign goods ; that country will be the principal gainer in whose cargoes there is the greatest proportion of native ...
... direct foreign trade , the other a roundabout trade . All countries exchange with one another partly native and partly foreign goods ; that country will be the principal gainer in whose cargoes there is the greatest proportion of native ...
Page 52
... direct ope- ration than one upon exportation . It would impose only one tax on the people . It would tend to lower the price of the commodity in the home market , which would , in part , contribute to repay the tax . Something like a ...
... direct ope- ration than one upon exportation . It would impose only one tax on the people . It would tend to lower the price of the commodity in the home market , which would , in part , contribute to repay the tax . Something like a ...
Page 59
... direct object of these statutes was , under the pretence of encouraging agriculture , to raise the money price of corn as high as possible , pp . 114 , 115 . Were all nations to admit a free exportation and importation , the different ...
... direct object of these statutes was , under the pretence of encouraging agriculture , to raise the money price of corn as high as possible , pp . 114 , 115 . Were all nations to admit a free exportation and importation , the different ...
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... direct foreign trade being more advantageous than a round- about one , p . 125. Though Great Britain were excluded from the Portugal trade , it would find no difficulty in purchasing its annual supplies of gold and silver ; for the ...
... direct foreign trade being more advantageous than a round- about one , p . 125. Though Great Britain were excluded from the Portugal trade , it would find no difficulty in purchasing its annual supplies of gold and silver ; for the ...
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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