 | 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...the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident, that... | |
 | 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...the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer." That the same feeling governs the manufacturing... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1872 - 730 pages
...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 of all Production...the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident, that... | |
 | 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...the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident, that... | |
 | David Cunningham (Civil engineer) - Moral conditions - 1878 - 424 pages
...days. What Adam Smith wrote a century since cannot well be too often recalled to mind. He says : — ' Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production,...the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. ' The maxim is so self-evident that it would... | |
 | David Cunningham (C.E., F.R.S.E.) - Moral conditions - 1878 - 466 pages
...days. What Adam Smith wrote a century since cannot well be too often recalled to mind. He says : — ' Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production,...the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. ' The maxim is so self-evident that it would... | |
 | 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 ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer, a maxim so perfectly self-evident that it would... | |
 | William Godwin Moody - Agriculture - 1883 - 380 pages
...every industry in the work of reproduction. Upon this point Adam Smith is very clear. He says : — " Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production...the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self evident that... | |
 | John Joseph Lalor - Economics - 1884 - 1184 pages
...producers, whose interests as a class had been almost exclusively regarded by previous economists. Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production, and the interests of producers are to be considered and furthered only so far as they affect the interests... | |
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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. 
