 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...every particular branch as the nature and extent of the trade would admit. The competition, therefore, would everywhere be as great, and consequently the ordinary profit as low as possible. But perhaps ao country has ever yet arrived at this degree of opulence. China seems to have been long... | |
 | Samuel Read - Economics - 1829 - 440 pages
...edition, vol. ip 150, notes. nature and extent of the trade would admit. The competition, therefore, would everywhere be as great, and consequently the ordinary profit as low as possible. " But perhaps no country has ever yet arrived at this degree of opulence. China seems to have been... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1835 - 486 pages
...branch as the nature and extent of the trade would admit. .The competition, therefore, would every where be as great, and consequently the ordinary profit as low as possible. But perhaps no country has ever yet arrived at this degree of opulence. China seems to have been long... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1870 - 512 pages
...declines, as the child approaches maturity, till at last it reaches its stationary point in full manhood. Adam Smith long ago remarked, that in a new colony,...however, soon began to decline, and they are now not much higher than in New York. Similar changes have taken place in Australia, since the discovery of... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Economics - 1870 - 586 pages
...stocked in proportion to all the business it had to transact, the competition would everywhere Ix; as great, and consequently the ordinary Profit as...however, soon began to decline, and they are now not much higher than in New York. Similar changes have taken place in Australia, since the discovery of... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...every particular branch as the nature and extent of the trade would admit. The competition, therefore, would everywhere be as great, and consequently the ordinary profit as low as possible. But perhaps no country has ever yet arrived at this degree of opulence. China seems to have been long... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Economics - 1890 - 522 pages
...declines, as the child approaches maturity, till at last it reaches its stationary -point in full manhood. Adam Smith long ago remarked, that in a new colony,...however, soon began to decline, and they are now not much higher than in New York. Similar changes have taken place in Australia, since the discovery of... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1894 - 526 pages
...every particular branch as the nature and extent of the trade would admit. The competition, therefore, would everywhere be as great, and consequently the ordinary profit as low as possible. But perhaps no country has ever yet arrived at this degree of opulence. China seems to have been long... | |
 | Edwin Cannan - Economics - 1903 - 458 pages
...in every particular branch' of business 'as the nature and extent of the trade would admit,' so that the competition ' would everywhere be as great, and...consequently the ordinary profit as low as possible.' 1 It would be idle to pretend that this account of the causes which determine the rate of profit is,... | |
 | Ching-Yao Hsieh, Stephen L. Mangum - Business & Economics - 1986 - 286 pages
...every particular branch as the nature and extent of trade would admit. The competition, therefore, would everywhere be as great, and consequently the ordinary profit as low as possible. (Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations [New York: Random House, 1937], p. 53) nously. This framework can... | |
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In a country fully stocked in proportion to all the business it had to transact, as great a quantity of stock would be employed in every particular branch as the nature and extent of the trade would admit. The competition, therefore, would everywhere... 
