 | Richard Theodore Ely - Economics - 1893 - 826 pages
...Wealth of Nations, the most influential book ever written on economics. "Every individual," said Smith, "is continually exerting himself to find out the most...own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage, naturally, or rather necessarily, leads him... | |
 | Ramsden Balmforth - Ethics - 1893 - 182 pages
...underlie the economic doctrines set forth in the Wealth of Nations. " Every individual," he says, " is continually exerting himself to find out the most...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,... | |
 | Ramsden Balmforth - Ethics - 1893 - 180 pages
...underlie the economic doctrines set forth in the Wealth of Nations. " Every individual," he says, " is continually exerting himself to find out the most...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,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 498 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...command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of society, 0 which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage, naturally, or rather necessarily,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 682 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...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,... | |
 | Charles Franklin Dunbar, Frank William Taussig, Abbott Payson Usher, Alvin Harvey Hansen, William Leonard Crum, Edward Chamberlin, Arthur Eli Monroe - Economics - 1899 - 512 pages
...course of things. The Creator has established *Bonar, Philosophy and Political Economy, pp. 177, 178. t "Every individual is continually exerting himself...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... | |
 | Henry William Macrosty - Competition - 1901 - 342 pages
...made up of individuals, the public interest is fully subserved by individuals acting in this way. " Every individual is continually exerting himself to...own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily, leads him... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 686 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...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,... | |
 | Élie Halévy - France - 1901 - 476 pages
...exerting himself to find out thé most advantageous employment for whatever capital hé can demand. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society hé has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rathér necessarily, Icads him to... | |
 | Élie Halévy - France - 1901 - 480 pages
...principe. 6. W. ofN. Book II, chap. m, vol. I, p. 344. 7. W. of N. Book IV, chap. H; vol. II, p. 26 : Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employatent forwhateYer capital he can demand. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of thesociety... | |
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Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally,... 
