 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 514 pages
...are unwilling, however, that any part of this small number should go abroad to instruct foreigners. Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production...for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident, that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system,... | |
 | Luke Herbert - Industrial arts - 1827 - 524 pages
...consumer i« ahnost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer;" but he also observes, " consomption is the sole end and purpose of all production ; and...be necessary for promoting that of the consumer." That the same feeling governs the manufacturing system, of which the labouring classes constitute the... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1836 - 538 pages
...should go abroad to instruct foreigners. Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; awd the interest of the producer ought to be attended...for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident, that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system,... | |
 | Miles Gerald Keon - 1846 - 608 pages
...demand, at so unnecessarily high a price. Consumption being the sole end and purpose of all production, the interest of the producer ought to be attended...may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. But have we acted on this principle ? have we not rather acted on the principle that production and... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1869 - 870 pages
...are unwilling, however, that any part of this small number should go abroad to instruct foreigners. Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production...interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so fur as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident,... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - Interest - 1870 - 376 pages
...certainly to be abolished. Consumption is the sole end and purpose of production; and the interests of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as may be necessary for promoting the interests of the consumers. We have already seen that no country... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch, John Locke - Economics - 1870 - 372 pages
...certainly to be abolished. Consumption is the sole end and purpose of production ; and the interests of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as may be necessary for promoting the interests of the consumers. We have already seen that no country... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1872 - 712 pages
...promissory notes to the value of £100,000, as by an equal value of gold and silver." In Book IV. ch. 8, he says — " Consumption is the sole end and purpose...for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident, that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...are unwilling, however, that any part of this small number should go abroad to instruct foreigners. Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production...for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident, that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system,... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1880 - 274 pages
...to extend our own manufactures, by depressing those of our neighbours. Consumption is the sole end of all production ; and the interest of the producer...may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer, a maxim so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile... | |
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production ; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. 
