| Adam Smith - 1822 - Broj stranica: 562
...likely to be more advantageous to the society than that into which it would have gone of its own accord. Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employVOL. II. N merit for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not... | |
| Joseph Chitty - 1824 - Broj stranica: 1090
...celebrated writers, Smith, Hume, Paley, and Malthus, are uniform. Dr. Adam Smith (2) observes, that " every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment: it is his Own advantage indeed, and not that of society, which he has in view; but the study of his... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1826 - Broj stranica: 302
...continually exerting himself to find out 4he most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage indeed, and not that of -society that he has in view; but this necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous... | |
| Adam Smith - 1836 - Broj stranica: 538
...likely to be more advantageous to the society than that into which it would have gone of its own accord. Every individual is continually exerting himself to...most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But... | |
| William Atkinson - 1838 - Broj stranica: 96
...following argument, which occurs at the bottom of the same page from which the last quotation is made : " Every individual is continually exerting himself to...most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, that he has in view. But... | |
| 1842 - Broj stranica: 678
...calculated to induce the reader to go over with him to the free principle. Il is as follows : — ' Every individual is continually exerting himself to...most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But... | |
| Truth-seeker and present age - 1849 - Broj stranica: 540
...supreme. The ' let-alone ' policy is best defended by stating the prineiples upon which it is founded. , Every individual is continually exerting himself to...most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the socicty, which he has in vicw. But... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1856 - Broj stranica: 502
...likely to be more advantageous to the society than that into which it would have gone of its own accord. Every individual is continually exerting himself to...most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. 'f " ' As every individual endeavours as much as he can, both to employ his capital in... | |
| William Atkinson - 1858 - Broj stranica: 698
...involving in any noticeable degree the great point now under consideration. It is as follows : — " Every individual is continually exerting himself to...most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, that he has in view. But... | |
| Horace Greeley - 1870 - Broj stranica: 386
...to have overstrained and run into the ground. I quote it from Adam Smith, 1 as ; foliows :— • " Every individual is continually exerting himself to...most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that f of the society, that he has in view, —... | |
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