 | Milton Briggs - Economics - 1921 - 552 pages
...wise control over industry. Economic Individualism was to him the essential condition of welfare. " 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... | |
 | Pramathanath Banerjea - India - 1922 - 286 pages
...welfare not only of the individual, but also of society. " Every individual", according to Adam 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Sir Dennis Holme Robertson - Capitalism - 1923 - 194 pages
...of the economic philosophies of the world. Hear first Adam Smith on the virtues of natural liberty. "Every individual is continually exerting himself...his 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... | |
 | Economics - 1924 - 812 pages
...quotation, choice sentences of Adam Smith — as, less frequently, of Ricardo. Smith had written thus : " 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... | |
 | 1924 - 702 pages
...quotation, choice sentences of Adam Smith — as, less frequently, of Bicardo. Smith had written thus : " 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... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1925 - 622 pages
...quotation, choice sentences of Adam Smith — as, less frequently, of Ricardo. Smith had written thus : ' 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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,... 
