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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... give them . The laws and customs favourable to the yeomanry have contributed more to the present grandeur of England than all the boasted regulations of commerce taken together , ' pp . 394 95 . The law which secures the longest leases ...
... give them . The laws and customs favourable to the yeomanry have contributed more to the present grandeur of England than all the boasted regulations of commerce taken together , ' pp . 394 95 . The law which secures the longest leases ...
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... give , must always improve under great disadvantages . The farmer is as a merchant who trades with borrowed money , the pro- prietor one who trades with his own . The station of the farmer is inferior to that of the proprietor , and in ...
... give , must always improve under great disadvantages . The farmer is as a merchant who trades with borrowed money , the pro- prietor one who trades with his own . The station of the farmer is inferior to that of the proprietor , and in ...
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... give a new value to the surplus part of the rude produce . The cultivators get a better price for their surplus pro- duce , which encourages them to increase that surplus by the better cultivation of the land . The manufactu- rers first ...
... give a new value to the surplus part of the rude produce . The cultivators get a better price for their surplus pro- duce , which encourages them to increase that surplus by the better cultivation of the land . The manufactu- rers first ...
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... gives encouragement to particular species of industry , by turning towards it a greater share of both the labour and stock of the society than would otherwise have gone to it , but it is not certain whether it tends to increase the ...
... gives encouragement to particular species of industry , by turning towards it a greater share of both the labour and stock of the society than would otherwise have gone to it , but it is not certain whether it tends to increase the ...
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... give the monopoly of the home - market to the produce of domestic industry , in any art or manufacture , is to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals , CHAP . II . 29 COMMERCIAL RESTRICTIONS .
... give the monopoly of the home - market to the produce of domestic industry , in any art or manufacture , is to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals , CHAP . II . 29 COMMERCIAL RESTRICTIONS .
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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