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Principles of Social and Political Economy, Or, The Laws of the Creation and ... - Page 78
by William Atkinson - 1858 - 645 pages
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Adam Smith's Concept of the Economic Man

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...
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Dogmenhistorische Untersuchungen über den Gegensatz von Staat und ...

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,...
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Essays on Economics and Economists

R. H. Coase - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 234 pages
...leads to resources being used in a way that maximises the value of their contribution to production: "Every individual is continually exerting himself...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...
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Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society

Jerry Z. Muller - Business & Economics - 1995 - 292 pages
...speaks of unintended consequences which are beneficial for both the actor and for society at large: 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...
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On Moral Business: Classical and Contemporary Resources for Ethics in ...

Max L. Stackhouse, Dennis P. McCann, Preston N. Williams, Shirley J. Roels - Business & Economics - 1995 - 1002 pages
...of socialism, if one has in mind the individualist capitalism made famous by Adam Smith. He wrote: Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment of whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of society which...
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Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade

Douglas A. Irwin - Business & Economics - 1998 - 290 pages
...greatest value, or to exchange for the greatest quantity either of money or of other goods" (IV.ii.8). "Every individual is continually exerting himself...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...
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British Industrial Capitalism Since the Industrial Revolution

Roger Lloyd-Jones, Myrddin John Lewis - Business & Economics - 1997 - 298 pages
...Adam Smith the advantages of deregulation were based on his observation of human behaviour: Everv' individual is continually exerting himself to find...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,...
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Corporate Futures: The Diffusion of the Culturally Sensitive Corporate Form

George E. Marcus - Business & Economics - 1998 - 376 pages
...still only think in terms of potential, not factual markets. It is the future-oriented aspect. ADAM: 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...
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The Struggle over the Soul of Economics: Institutionalist and Neoclassical ...

Yuval P. Yonay - Business & Economics - 1998 - 305 pages
...and logic. Six The Free Market on Trial: The Struggle over the Gap between Reality and Theory Ever)- individual is continually exerting himself to find...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...
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The History of Economics: In Its Relation to Social Development

Werner Stark - Business & Economics - 1998 - 96 pages
...originally derived'' (Wealthy ed. Carman, 19o4, I, 325). Every individual [he says in another place (419)] 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...
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