 Humanity may in this case require that the freedom of trade should be restored only by slow 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 same...  An essay on the external corn trade - Page 200by Robert Torrens - 1826 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Armitage-Smith - Free trade - 1898 - 252 pages
...reserve and circumspection", since its sudden adoption would destroy the protected industries, and " deprive all at once many thousands of our people of...their ordinary employment and means of subsistence". Although the system of protection prevailing when Adam Smith wrote had originated in a measure of public... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 484 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,... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - Great Britain - 1909 - 324 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." 2 " The very bad policy of one country may render it in some measure dangerous and imprudent to establish... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - Great Britain - 1909 - 328 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." 2 " The very bad policy of one country may render it in some measure dangerous and imprudent to establish... | |
 | Frank William Taussig - Commerce - 1921 - 586 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,... | |
 | Fabian Magnus von Koch - Free trade - 1922 - 44 pages
...profitable in the future (the "infant industries" argument), !) "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,... | |
 | Protectionism - 1920 - 770 pages
...gradationsand 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. As if worried by his own... | |
 | George T. Crane, Abla Amawi - Business & Economics - 1997 - 354 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,... | |
 | Marc Edelman - Social Science - 1999 - 350 pages
...gradations. . . . Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods . . . might be poured so fast into the home market, as to...their ordinary employment and means of subsistence. The disorder which this would occasion might no doubt be very considerable. ADAM SMITH, An Inquiry... | |
 | Thomas Weishing Huang - Law - 2003 - 342 pages
...freedom of trade should be restored only by slow gradations. Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the...our people of their ordinary employment and means of subsistence.78 Therefore, some sort of temporary relief may be required to prevent social and economic... | |
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