| Patrick Murray - 1997 - 510 σελίδες
...with profit and success, any project of improvement. Thirdly, and lastly, commerce and manufactures gradually introduced order and good government, and...lived almost in a continual state of war with their neighbours, and of servile dependency upon their superiors. This, though it has been the least observed,... | |
| Patrick Murray - 1997 - 504 σελίδες
...with profit and success, any project of improvement. Thirdly, and lastly, commerce and manufactures gradually introduced order and good government, and...the inhabitants of the country, who had before lived ahuost in a continual state of war with their neighbours, and of servile dependency upon their superiors.... | |
| 1998 - 394 σελίδες
...social revolution in early-modern Europe produced by "commerce and manufactures," Smith maintained, had introduced "order and good government, and with them, the liberty and security of individuals." The feudal nobility had bartered its "power and authority" in order to purchase the luxuries supplied... | |
| Charles L. Griswold - 1999 - 430 σελίδες
...In his narration of the "natural" stages of progress, Smith remarks that "Commerce and manufacturers gradually introduced order and good government, and...lived almost in a continual state of war with their neighbours, and of servile dependency upon their superiors" (WN III.iv.4). This development, he says,... | |
| Samuel Fleischacker - 1999 - 351 σελίδες
...and a lessening of the need for armed protection from powerful lords: "[C]ommerce and manufactures gradually introduced order and good government, and...lived almost in a continual state of war with their neighbours, and of servile dependency upon their superiors. This, though it has been the least observed,... | |
| Michael Perelman - 2000 - 428 σελίδες
...commerce contributed to the improvement of rural society. There he noted: Commerce and manufactures gradually introduced order and good government, and...lived almost in a continual state of war with their neighbours, and of servile dependence upon their superiors. (Smith 1976, III.iv.4, 412) Smith continued:... | |
| Robert I. Rotberg - 2000 - 369 σελίδες
...the Commerce of the Towns Contributed to the Improvement of the Country," "commerce and manufactures gradually introduced order and good government, and...lived almost in a continual state of war with their neighbours and of servile dependency upon their superiors. This, though it has been the least observed,... | |
| Christopher M. Duncan - 2000 - 274 σελίδες
...economic equality. As Smith writes near the close of The Wealth of Nations: commerce and manufactures gradually introduced order and good government, and...with them, the liberty and security of individuals . . . who had before lived almost in a continual state of war with their neighbors, and of servile... | |
| Cato Institute - 2000 - 402 σελίδες
...byproducts of commercial society. Adam Smith tells us how the development of commercial life in Europe "gradually introduced order and good government, and with them, the liberty and security of individuals."6 And, in his classic book Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, "Trade makes... | |
| Joseph Rotblat - 2001 - 464 σελίδες
...quote here Adam Smith, the ideological founder of the free market economy: Commerce and manufactures gradually introduced order and good government, and...lived almost in a continual state of war with their neighbours, and of servile dependency upon their superiors. Yet, economic development has never been... | |
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