 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 484 pages
...likely to be more advantageous to the society than that into which it would have gone of its own accord. Every individual is continually exerting himself to...advantageous employment for whatever capital he can demand. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1907 - 850 pages
...First 1 [See Joshua viii. 33, 34.] '' [See such passages in The Wealth of Nation* as book iv. ch. ii. : "It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view ; " and book iv. ch. ix. : " the natural effort which every man is continually making to better his... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1907 - 856 pages
...Joshua viii. 33, 34.] s [See such passages in The Wealth of Nation» as book iv. ch. ii. : " It is bii own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view ; " and book iv. ch. ix. : "the natural effort which every man is continually making to better his... | |
 | Thorstein Veblen - Civilization - 1919 - 526 pages
...Journal of Economics, Vol. XIII, July. 1899. 2 Bonar, Philosophy and Political Economy, pp. 177, 178. 3 " Every individual is continually exerting himself to...whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or... | |
 | Herbert Heaton - Australia - 1922 - 304 pages
...activity iu a way which produced the greatest benefit to society. Witness the following extract:— "Every individual is continually exerting himself...most advantageous employment for whatever capital he may command. It is his own advantage indeed, and not that of society, which he has in view; but the... | |
 | Economics - 1924 - 812 pages
...most advantageous methods of employing his capital and labour. It is true that it is his own advantage and not that of the society which he has in view; but, as a society is nothing more than an aggregate collection of individuals? it is plain that each in... | |
 | 1924 - 702 pages
...most advantageous methods of employing his capital and labour. It is true that it is his own advantage and not that of the society which he has in view; but, as a society is nothing more than an aggregate collection of individuals,1 it is plain that each in... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1925 - 622 pages
...most advantageous methods of employing his capital and labour. It is true that it is his own advantage and not that of the society which he has in view ; but, as a society is nothing more than an aggregate collection of individuals,31 it is plain that each in... | |
 | Lionel Danforth Edie - Economics - 1926 - 832 pages
...appliances of the industrial system, but they make a pecuniary use of them. And in point of fact the less i "Every individual is continually exerting himself...whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage and not that of society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather... | |
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Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. 
