| C. Mantzavinos, Chrysostomos Mantzavinos - 2004 - 336 páginas
...forest." Smith stated (1776/1976, p. }62f.): "But the principle which prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which though generally...those two moments, there is scarce perhaps a single instant in which any man is so perfectly and completely satisfied with his situation, as to be without... | |
| Peter L. Danner - 2002 - 202 páginas
...though milder, formulated the gain principle which is still quoted: "The desire to better our condition, which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave" (Smith 1952, 147). Thus private gaining as by an Invisible Hand becomes the instrument of economic... | |
| Christina Petsoulas - 2001 - 220 páginas
...force behind economic progress is man's natural desire 'to better his condition';159 a desire which 'comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave' and which manifests itself in man's incessant effort to accumulate wealth: 'an augmentation of fortune... | |
| Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 páginas
...enlightened platform. THE PURSUIT OF WEALTH [T] he desire of bettering our condition, a desire which . . . comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave. ADAM SMITH 1 Britain prospered under the House of Hanover, a consumer society emerged, and enlightened... | |
| Donna T. Andrew, Randall McGowen - 2001 - 384 páginas
...go with the great stream of life,"74 "The desire of bettering our condition," concluded Adam Smith, "comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave." The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd could scarcely contain their ambition or regulate it by "the principle of... | |
| Henry S. Turner - 2002 - 324 páginas
...in general only momentary and occasional. But the principle which prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave. ... An augmentation of fortune is the means by which the greater part of men propose and wish to better... | |
| Andres Marroquin - 2002 - 165 páginas
...in general only momentary and occasional. But the principle which prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally...dispassionate, comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us til we go into the grave Though the principle of expence, therefore, prevails in almost all men upon... | |
| Richard R. Ellsworth - 2002 - 423 páginas
...pursuit of "bettering our condition" as the strongest and most enduring human motivation, one that "comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave. An augmentation of fortune is the means by which the greater part of men propose and wish to better... | |
| James C. W. Ahiakpor - 2003 - 278 páginas
...starting especially with Adam Smith, also believed that the pursuit of self-interest or the desire of "bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave" (WN, 1 : 362-3) on the part of both sellers and buyers assures the working of the factor allocative... | |
| Martin Cohen - 2003 - 354 páginas
...in general only momentary and occasional. But the principle which prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave . . . Compare that with the 'moral impulse', which even on the most generous estimate would leave a... | |
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