 | Friedrich List - Economics - 1927 - 676 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...out the most advantageous employment for whatever cap1tal he can command. It is bis own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has... | |
 | George Carpenter Ingelow - 1928 - 176 pages
...by their universal, continual, and 2 uninterrupted effort to better their own condition." / "Bvery individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever oapital he oan oommtnd. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not th*.t of the society, which 3 he hns... | |
 | Adalbert von Unruh - Idealism - 1928 - 124 pages
...individual is continua% exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever eapital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that w the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage, natural^ or rather necessarily,... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 872 pages
...is most agreeable to the interest of the whole society."2 What he sought was the "invisible hand": "every individual is continually exerting himself...advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command ... He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest nor knows how much he is promoting... | |
 | William Stafford - History - 1987 - 320 pages
...to invest their money as they wish, they soon discover the most profitable and productive outlets: Every individual is continually exerting himself to...command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily,... | |
 | Christopher Herbert - History - 1991 - 384 pages
...economic system of which it is a basic law that all outlays of capital or labor bring equivalent returns. "Every individual is continually exerting himself...advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command" (WN 1:475). To what end, if "the whole of the advantages and disadvantages of the different employments... | |
 | James A. Caporaso, David P. Levine - Business & Economics - 1992 - 258 pages
...is likely to be more advantageous to society than that into which it would have gone of its accord. Every individual is continually exerting himself to...command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of society which he has in view. But the study of his advantage naturally or rather necessarily leads... | |
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Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. 
