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" It is in this manner that money has become in all civilized nations the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention of which goods of all kinds are bought and sold, or exchanged for one another. "
Systematic Education: Or Elementary Instruction in the Various Departments ... - Page 478
by William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - 1815
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Practical Philosophy

Immanuel Kant - 1999 - 706 pages
...19:3. 23 Adam Smith says merely, "It is in this manner that money has become in all civilized nations the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention...are bought and sold, or exchanged for one another." The Wealth of Nations, Bk. I, Ch. IV (Middlesex and New York, Penguin Books, 1970), p. 131. He does,...
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A Short History of Political Economy in England

2000 - 224 pages
...the "origin and use of money,'' and in this way he shows how it has become "in all civilised nations the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention...are bought and sold, or exchanged for one another." It is, to use again the technical language of economic manuals, a 'medium of exchange.' But in these...
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The Philosophy of Law: An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of ...

Immanuel Kant - 2002 - 302 pages
...Money, Bnd are called Coin. According to Adam Smith, ' Money has become, in all civilised nations, the universal instrument of Commerce, by the intervention...are bought and sold or exchanged for one another.' — This Definition expands the empirical conception of Money to the rational idea of it, by taking...
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The Monetary Theory of Production

Augusto Graziani - 2003 - 190 pages
...primitive money, Smith concludes: 'It is in this manner that money has become in all civilised nations the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention...are bought and sold, or exchanged for one another' (Smith 1993 [1776], book I, chapter 4:34). Similarly, in Stuart Mill's words, money is 'the medium...
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Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings

Adam Smith - 2004 - 260 pages
...rich and commercial nations. . . . It is in this manner that money has become in all civilized nations the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention...are bought and sold, or exchanged for one another. . . . The word VALUE, it is to be observed, has two different meanings, and sometimes expresses the...
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Readings in the Economics of the Division of Labor: The Classical Tradition

Guang-Zhen Sun - 2005 - 312 pages
...by a very great public calamity. It is in this manner that money has become in all civilized nations the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention...are bought and sold, or exchanged for one another. Book II Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock. Introduction IN that rude state of society...
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Scotland, Britain, Empire: Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860

Kenneth McNeil - 2007 - 236 pages
...of money circulation and of credit. "Money," as Smith writes, "has become in all civilized nations the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention...are bought and sold, or exchanged for one another" (44). Furthermore, Smith argues, the adequate circulation of money is key to ensuring the health of...
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Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith - 2007 - 597 pages
...money has become in all civilized nations the universal instrument of commerce, by the inter; vention of which goods of all kinds are bought and sold, or '• exchanged for one another. • What are the rules which men naturally observe in ex( changing them either for money or for one...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith - 2007 - 513 pages
...calamity. IT is in this manner that money has become in all civilized nations the univerfal inftrument of commerce, by the intervention of which goods of all kinds are bought and fold, or exchanged for one another. WHAT are the rules which men naturally obftrve in exchanging them...
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The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering the Six Classics of Economics

Michael Lewis - 2007 - 1476 pages
...a very great public calamity. It is in this manner that money has become, in all civilized nations, the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention...are bought and sold, or exchanged for one another. What are the rules which men naturally observe, in exchanging them either for money, or for one another,...
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