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" Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the same kind might be poured so fast into the home market, as to deprive all at once many thousands of our people of their ordinary employment and means of subsistence. "
An Essay on the External Corn Trade - Page 200
by Robert Torrens - 1829 - 477 pages
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Asian Politics in Development: Essays in Honour of Gordon White

Robert Benewick, Marc J. Blecher, Sarah Cook - Political Science - 2003 - 332 pages
...against the too-rapid removal of these protective measures: '[w]ere those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the...market, as to deprive all at once many thousands of people of their ordinary employment and means of subsistence' [ibid.: 469]. However, among the classical...
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Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings

Adam Smith - Business & Economics - 2004 - 260 pages
...gradations, and with a good deal of reserve and circumspection. Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the...their ordinary employment and means of subsistence. The disorder which this would occasion might no doubt be very considerable. It would in all probability,...
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The Library of Original Sources: Volume VI (Advance in Knowledge 1650-1800)

Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 466 pages
...gradations, and with a good deal of reserve and circumspection. Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the...their ordinary employment and means of subsistence. The disorder which this would occasion might no doubt be very considerable. It would in all probability,...
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Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith - Business & Economics - 2007 - 597 pages
...gradations, and with a good deal of reserve and circumspection. Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the...market, as to deprive all at once many thousands of oar people of their ordinary employment and means of subsistence* The disorder which this would occasion...
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The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering the Six Classics of Economics

Michael Lewis - Economic policy - 2007 - 1476 pages
...gradations, and with a good deal of reserve and circumspection. Were those high duties and prohibitions e for the profits of the stock which advanced the wages and furnished the materials of that labor. The disorder which this would occasion might no doubt be very considerable. It would in all probability,...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 5

Europe - 1814 - 536 pages
...must be attended with fatal consequences. J " Humanity," says he, " in this case requires that the freedom of trade should be restored only by slow gradations,...ordinary employment and means of subsistence."— Now, although no high duties and protections have of late existed by law in favour of the British farmer,...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2

Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 516 pages
...gradations, and with a goad deal of reserve and circumspection. Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the...their ordinary employment and means of subsistence. The disorder which this would occasion might, no doubt, be very considerable. It would in all probability,...
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Ethics, Hunger and Globalization: In Search of Appropriate Policies

Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Peter Sandøe - Philosophy - 2007 - 339 pages
...Organization. AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDY AND TRADE POLICIES INTRODUCTION Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the...their ordinary employment and means of subsistence. The disorder which this occasioned might no doubt be very considerable (Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 4

Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1814 - 598 pages
...manner which Dr. Smith says would be attended with great mischief and calamity. Foreign corn. would be poured so fast into the home market, as to deprive, all at once, many thousands of our farmers, and our farming laborers, of their ordinary employment and means of subsistence. If, then,...
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