A Project of Empire: A Critical Study of the Economics of Imperialism, with Special Reference to the Ideas of Adam SmithMacmillan, 1909 - 284 páginas |
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... consideration . " Adam Smith , indeed , shows that the sentiment of nationality and patriotism may be pushed too far , and that the 66 mean principle of national prejudice is often founded upon the noble one of the love of our own ...
... consideration . " Adam Smith , indeed , shows that the sentiment of nationality and patriotism may be pushed too far , and that the 66 mean principle of national prejudice is often founded upon the noble one of the love of our own ...
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... considerations . These two ideas , as so often happens with popular delusions , 1 Some writers have laid too much stress on Adam Smith's " natural theology " and the optimism supposed to be based on it . In particular , the reference to ...
... considerations . These two ideas , as so often happens with popular delusions , 1 Some writers have laid too much stress on Adam Smith's " natural theology " and the optimism supposed to be based on it . In particular , the reference to ...
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... consideration . " The most visionary enthusiast would scarce be capable of proposing such a measure with any serious hopes at least of its ever being adopted . " " No nation ever voluntarily gave up the dominion of any province how ...
... consideration . " The most visionary enthusiast would scarce be capable of proposing such a measure with any serious hopes at least of its ever being adopted . " " No nation ever voluntarily gave up the dominion of any province how ...
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... reason naturally leads to the consideration of the other differences in the employments of capital from the point of view of national advantage . § 5. Distinction between Profit and Advantage . And in 48 CHAP . A PROJECT OF EMPIRE.
... reason naturally leads to the consideration of the other differences in the employments of capital from the point of view of national advantage . § 5. Distinction between Profit and Advantage . And in 48 CHAP . A PROJECT OF EMPIRE.
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... consideration of his own private profit is the sole motive which determines the owner of any capital to employ it either in agriculture , in manufactures , or in some particular branch of the wholesale or retail trade . The different ...
... consideration of his own private profit is the sole motive which determines the owner of any capital to employ it either in agriculture , in manufactures , or in some particular branch of the wholesale or retail trade . The different ...
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Adam Smith Adam Smith's views agriculture Alexander Hamilton annual produce Book bounties Britain British Empire capital employed carrying trade chap chapter colonies commercial commodities considered consumer Corn Laws customs duties defence economic effect employment of capital encouragement England equal expense foreign countries foreign trade freedom of trade greater greatest Henry Sidgwick high duties home country home industries home market home producer home trade ideas of Adam imperial imperial federation imposed increase individual interests internal free trade kind labour and capital land and labour manufactures means mercantile system mercantilist merchants monopoly Moral Sentiments mother country Navigation Act necessary object particular passage point of view political economy present principles productive labour prohibitions protection protectionist rate of profit realised reference regards retaliation revenue shows society statesmen sumer surplus taxation taxes theory tion towns trade of consumption United Kingdom unproductive wages Wealth of Nations whole
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Página 264 - Act, which is similar, either in material, quality, texture, or the use to which it may be applied, to any article enumerated in this Act as chargeable with duty, shall pay the same rate of duty which is levied on the enumerated article which it most resembles in any of the particulars before mentioned...
Página 207 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Página 116 - Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production ; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Página 136 - I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it.
Página 114 - 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.
Página 12 - It is not impossible, therefore, that some of the regulations of this famous act may have proceeded from national animosity. They are as wise, however, as if they had all been dictated by the most deliberate wisdom. National animosity at that particular time aimed at the very same object which the most deliberate wisdom would have recommended, the diminution of the naval power of Holland, the only naval power which could endanger the security of England.
Página 170 - To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should ever be established in it.
Página 184 - The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind.
Página 136 - The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Página 78 - There may be good policy in retaliations of this kind, when there is a probability that they will procure the repeal of the high duties or prohibitions complained of. The recovery of a great foreign market will generally more than compensate the transitory inconveniency of paying dearer during a short time for some sorts of goods.