 | John Cunningham Wood, Ronald N. Woods - Economists - 1989 - 320 pages
...'political economy, considered as a branch of the science of a statesman or legislator' were 'first, to provide a plentiful revenue or subsistence for...people, or more properly to enable them to provide such revenue or subsistence for themselves; and secondly, to supply the state or commonwealth with a revenue... | |
 | William Harold Hutt - Political Science - 1990 - 392 pages
...inevitable. Adam Smith had regarded polit1cal economy as an art, — as having as its first object 'to provide a plentiful revenue or subsistence for...or, more properly, to enable them to provide such a revenue or subsistence for themselves'. The choice of Party by the Classical economists ought not to... | |
 | James O'Toole - Business & Economics - 1995 - 190 pages
...Smith-theeconomist when he writes that the goals of economic policy are. "first. to provide a plentiful subsistence for the people. or more properly to enable them to provide such a revenue or subsistence for themselves; and secondly. to supply the state or commonwealth with a revenue... | |
 | William Anselmi, Kosta Gouliamos - Political Science - 1994 - 222 pages
...'a branch of the science of a statesman or legislator [which] proposes two distinct objects: first, to provide a plentiful revenue or subsistence for...or more properly to enable them to provide such a revenue or subsistence for themselves — and secondly, to supply the state or commonwealth with a... | |
 | John Rogers Commons - 434 pages
...Smith addressed his inquiry to the statesman or legislator, as proposing "two distinct objects: first, to provide a plentiful revenue or subsistence for...or more properly to enable them to provide such a revenue or subsistence for themselves; and secondly, to supply the state or commonwealth with a revenue... | |
 | Donald Winch - History - 1996 - 452 pages
...practical objectives of political economy is fairly conventional by eighteenth-century standards: it was 'to provide a plentiful revenue or subsistence for...or more properly to enable them to provide such a revenue or subsistence for themselves; and secondly to supply the state or commonwealth with a revenue... | |
 | Peter Gay - History - 1996 - 756 pages
...could not have gone on, as Adam Smith did, to say that this science had "two distinct objects: first, to provide a plentiful revenue or subsistence for...or more properly to enable them to provide such a revenue or subsistence for themselves; and secondly, to supply the state or commonwealth with a revenue... | |
 | David F. Lindenfeld - History - 1997 - 396 pages
...legislator, proposes two distinct objects: first, to provide the nation a plentiful income [Smith: to provide a plentiful revenue or subsistence for...people], or more properly, to enable them to provide this for themselves; and secondly, to supply the government [Smith: state or commonwealth] with a revenue... | |
 | David F. Lindenfeld - Political Science - 2008 - 395 pages
...legislator, proposes two distinct objects: first, to provide the nation a plentiful income [Smith: to provade a plentiful revenue or subsistence for the people], or more properly, to enable them to provide this for themselves; and secondly, to supply the government [Smith: state or commonwealth] with a revenue... | |
 | Mary Poovey - Mathematics - 1998 - 450 pages
...practical objectives of political economy is fairly conventional by eighteenth-century standards: it was 'to provide a plentiful revenue or subsistence for...or more properly to enable them to provide such a revenue or subsistence for themselves; and secondly to supply the state or common wealth with a revenue... | |
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Political economy, considered as a branch of the science of a statesman or legislator, proposes two distinct objects : first, to provide a plentiful revenue or subsistence for the people, or, more properly, to enable them to provide such a revenue or... 
