 ... purchase such goods as are likely to be consumed by idle people who produce nothing, such as foreign wines, foreign silks, &c. ; or, secondly, they may purchase an additional stock of materials, tools, and provisions, in order to maintain and employ...  The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography ... - Page 1351838Full view - About this book
 | Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 pages
...they may purchase an additional stock of materials, tools, and provisions, in order to maintain and employ an additional number of industrious people,...promotes prodigality, increases expense and consumption, «¡i¡»nit increasing production, or establishing any permanent fund for supporting that expense,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1857 - 718 pages
...may purchase an additional stock of materials, tools, and provisions, which may serve to maintain and employ an additional number of industrious people,...with a profit, the value of their annual consumption. The latter is the most usual way in which the gold and silver is employed, that is thus forced abroad... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1866 - 894 pages
...countries, for home use, an additional stock of materials, tools and provisions, in order to maintain and employ an additional number of industrious people,...with a profit, the value of their annual consumption, it promotes industry ; and though it increase the consumpof the society, it provides a permanent fund... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 576 pages
...they may purchase an additional stock of materials, tools, and provisions, in order to maintain and employ an additional number of industrious people,...that expense, and is in every respect hurtful to the society.1 So far as it is employed in the second way, it promotes industry ; and though it increases... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...they may purchase an additional stock of materials, tools, and provisions, in order to maintain and employ an additional number of industrious people,...permanent fund for supporting that expense, and is m every respect hurtful to the society. So far as it is employed in the second way, it promotes industry... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1884 - 604 pages
...they may purchase an adlitional stock of materials, tools, and provisions, in order to maintain and employ an additional number of industrious people,...consumption. So far as it is employed in the first way, и I promotes prodigality, increases expense and consumption, without increasing production, or establishing... | |
 | Alexander Philip - 1890 - 182 pages
...they may purchase an additional stock of materials, tools, and provisions, in order to maintain and employ an additional number of industrious people,...expense and consumption, without increasing production. ... So far as it is employed in the second way, it promotes industry ; and though it increases the... | |
 | Simon Nelson Patten - 1899 - 456 pages
...people who produce nothing " and the " stock of materials, tools, and provisions which maintain and employ an additional number of industrious people,...a profit, the value of their annual consumption." Smith would not have used the terms "idle people" and "in1 See Wealth of Nations, the close of Chap.... | |
 | Albion W. Small - 1907 - 290 pages
...equally true as a sociological proposition, viz. : .... it promotes prodigality, increases expence in consumption without increasing production, or establishing any permanent fund for supporting that expence and is in every respect [sic] hurtful to the society.' It is hardly necessary to urge that... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1909 - 674 pages
...additional stock of materials, tools, and provisions, in order to maintain and employ an additional nmnber of industrious people, who re-produce, with a profit,...the first way, it promotes prodigality, increases expence and consumption without increasing production, or establishing any permanent fund for supporting... | |
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