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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... never introduced any considerable manufactures for distant sale into either of those countries , and the greater part of both still remains uncultivated . Italy has been improved in every part , by means of foreign . commerce and ...
... never introduced any considerable manufactures for distant sale into either of those countries , and the greater part of both still remains uncultivated . Italy has been improved in every part , by means of foreign . commerce and ...
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... never exceed what the capital of the society can employ , pp . 25 , 26 . See , for an account of these attempts , Twiss , View of the Progress of Political Economy in Europe . Every individual exerts himself to find out the most ...
... never exceed what the capital of the society can employ , pp . 25 , 26 . See , for an account of these attempts , Twiss , View of the Progress of Political Economy in Europe . Every individual exerts himself to find out the most ...
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... never so long out of his sight as in the foreign trade of consumption ; he also knows better his customers , and the laws of the country from which he must seek redress . Hence every country which has any considerable share of the ...
... never so long out of his sight as in the foreign trade of consumption ; he also knows better his customers , and the laws of the country from which he must seek redress . Hence every country which has any considerable share of the ...
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... never be known . ( 2 ) Taxes on the necessaries of life have the same effect upon the circumstances of the people as a poor soil and bad climate ; and to lay a new tax upon them because they are already overburdened with taxes , making ...
... never be known . ( 2 ) Taxes on the necessaries of life have the same effect upon the circumstances of the people as a poor soil and bad climate ; and to lay a new tax upon them because they are already overburdened with taxes , making ...
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... never permit the agio to be more than 5 nor less than 4 per cent . , p . 60 . The bank of Amsterdam professes to lend out no part of what is deposited in it ; and no point of faith is better established , than that of every guilder ...
... never permit the agio to be more than 5 nor less than 4 per cent . , p . 60 . The bank of Amsterdam professes to lend out no part of what is deposited in it ; and no point of faith is better established , than that of every guilder ...
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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