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" It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities... "
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - Page 21
by Adam Smith - 1822 - 47 pages
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De gids: nieuwe vaderlandsche letteroefeningen, Volume 145

1837 - 738 pages
...that we expect our dinner, but from their regard of their own interest. We address ourselves, not lo their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk...them of our own necessities but of their advantages', dan mag dat nu vrij vanzelfsprekend klinken. Maar omstreeks 1700 sprak men nog liever niet over zulke...
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The Living Age, Volume 317

1923 - 850 pages
...Listen to the old cynic. ' It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.' How does the conception of a society in which the State is limited to the triple function of warding...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 95

1905 - 880 pages
...sagely remarked that "it is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their...but to their self-love, and never talk to them of 1 Human Work. By CHARLOTTE PERRINS GILMAN. New York : McClure, Phillips & Co. 1904. our own necessities,...
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The Practitioner, Volume 10

1873 - 446 pages
...self-interest. " It is not," he says, " from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." 1 He then proceeds to show that the division of labour is limited by the extent of the market; from...
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Select Chapters and Passages from the Wealth of Nations of Adam Smith, 1776

Adam Smith - 1894 - 526 pages
...proposes to do this. Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want, is the mean16 ing of every such offer ; and it is in this manner that...them of our own necessities, but of their advantages. . . . As it is by treaty, by barter, and by purchase, that we obtain from one another the greater part...
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Anthracite Coal Communities: A Study of the Demography, the Social ...

Peter Roberts - 1904 - 452 pages
...be used to his advantage. Adam Smith said, if we want the cooperation of some of our fellow-men, " we address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to...them of our own necessities but of their advantages." Mine employees say the operators brought the Sclav into the coal fields to break the back of Anglo-Saxon...
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The Economic Review, Volume 15

1905 - 528 pages
...inspired his remark, " It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." " He may have obtained a general love of liberty from Hutcheson, but whence did he obtain the belief...
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A Project of Empire: A Critical Study of the Economics of Imperialism, with ...

Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 324 pages
...Adam Smith observed : " It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their...of our own necessities, but of their advantages." l But to get anything by way of exchange something must be given, and in any modern society that something...
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A Project of Empire: A Critical Study of the Economics of Imperialism, with ...

Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 328 pages
...Adam Smith observed : " It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but 'from their regard to their...of our own necessities, but of their advantages." 1 But to get anything by way of exchange something must be given, and in any modern society that something...
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Unpopular Review, Volume 9

Henry Holt - 1918 - 488 pages
...PRICE FIXING BY GOVERNMENT IT is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." So wrote Adam Smith, a hundred and fifty years ago. So might the Son of Sirach have written, and butchers...
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