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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... equal profits most men would choose to employ their capitals rather in the cultivation of land than either in manufactures or in foreign trade . The capital employed in land is more under the command of its owner , and is less liable to ...
... equal profits most men would choose to employ their capitals rather in the cultivation of land than either in manufactures or in foreign trade . The capital employed in land is more under the command of its owner , and is less liable to ...
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... equal manufactures are preferred , for the employment of a capital , to foreign commerce .. In every period of society the surplus part of the produce must be sent abroad in order to be exchanged for something for which there is a ...
... equal manufactures are preferred , for the employment of a capital , to foreign commerce .. In every period of society the surplus part of the produce must be sent abroad in order to be exchanged for something for which there is a ...
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... equal right to the earth , and all that it possesses , ' pp . 386-88 . For arguments in favour of the custom of primogeniture , see M'Culloch's edition of Wealth of Nations , pp . 561-70 , and for arguments against it , Mill's Political ...
... equal right to the earth , and all that it possesses , ' pp . 386-88 . For arguments in favour of the custom of primogeniture , see M'Culloch's edition of Wealth of Nations , pp . 561-70 , and for arguments against it , Mill's Political ...
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... equal to that of the proprietor . In England also most of the yeomanry possess freeholds , which rende the whole order respectable on account of the political consider- ation which these give them . The laws and customs favourable to ...
... equal to that of the proprietor . In England also most of the yeomanry possess freeholds , which rende the whole order respectable on account of the political consider- ation which these give them . The laws and customs favourable to ...
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... equal or nearly equal ) , and consequently as much as he can in the support of domestic industry . - In the home trade the capital of a merchant is never so long out of his sight as in the foreign trade of consumption ; he also knows ...
... equal or nearly equal ) , and consequently as much as he can in the support of domestic industry . - In the home trade the capital of a merchant is never so long out of his sight as in the foreign trade of consumption ; he also knows ...
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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