... 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 - 1922 - 522 pages
...sent abroad purchases materials, &c. The quantity of industry which the circulating capital cUn employ additional number of industrious people, who re-produce,...the first way, it promotes prodigality, increases expence and consumption without increasing production, or establishing any permanent fund for supporting... | |
| Adam Smith - 2008 - 1148 pages
...• iii employed. an additional stock ot 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. If to supply luxuries So far as it is employed in the first way, it promotes Pc^umptln"Lin. prodigality,... | |
| John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 664 pages
...expence and consumption without increasing production . . ."; the last, maintains and ". . . employs an additional number of industrious people, who re-produce,...a profit, the value of their annual consumption." Smith considered the third alternative more typical than the second since, "The demand of idle people... | |
| 2000 - 468 pages
...idle people who produce nothing" and the "sta:k 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 " ini See Wealth of Nations, the close of Chap.... | |
| Steve Olsen - 2007 - 128 pages
...provisions, in order to maintain and employ an additional number of industrious people, who re -produce, with a profit, the value of their annual consumption....that expense, and is in every respect hurtful to the society."g (The man does sound like a Scotsman, you have to admit.) "...Regulations may, no doubt,... | |
| Adam Smith - 1809 - 516 pages
...they may purchase an additional stock of materials, tools, and provisions, in order to maintain and employ an additional number of industrious people,...the first way, it promotes prodigality, increases expence and consumption, without increasing production, or establishing any permanent fund for supporting... | |
| 1831 - 782 pages
...provisions, in orto maintain and employ an additional number of industrious people." admits, that (§) "so far as it is employed in the first way, it promotes Fhe capital necessarily invested in a country using gold and silver mor alone, is variously estimated... | |
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