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...Chiachen Chang and Zhiguang Lin, The Climate of China, p. 295. 10 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN BRITAIN To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for... | |
 | John V. Denson - 570 strani
...neo-mercantilism, and deals in statism and power. The exoteric doctrine calls to mind the words of Adam Smith: To found a great Empire for the sole purpose of raising...a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project al together unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced... | |
 | Donald Rutherford - 1996 - 528 strani
...manufactures which they will create in return. Mr. Malthus speaks indeed of the impolicy of 'founding a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers;' but neither the means nor the end to which his remarks apply are the same as those now under consideration:... | |
 | Charles R. Lewis - 2000 - 166 strani
...on to satirize mercantilistic claims for colonialist protectionism: The Difference of a Doubloon 107 To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...fit for a nation whose government is influenced by a shopkeepers. (613) The term Smith employs for these skewed colonial relations is "derangement," which... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 strani
...423. — » For other uses of "the invisible hand," see ADAM SMITH:!. 218 SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON 22 To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; hut extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. The Wealth of Nations... | |
 | Roger Backhouse - 2000 - 482 strani
...of a shopkeeper is true also of a shopkeeping nation.'5 A parallel argument appears in Adam Smith. ' To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...may, at first sight, appear a project fit only for a 1 'Letter to Burke,' p. 5z. * Tucker's Works, iit. 119. 2 Burke's Works, it. 413. * Ib. it. 13z (written... | |
 | P. J. Cain, Mark Harrison - 2001 - 392 strani
...imperialist policy. This way of looking at the matter was not really very different from Adam Smith's: "To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers" iThe Wealth of Nations [Edinburgh. 1814]. bk. 4. ch. 71. The founders of Marxism. despite their attachment.... | |
 | David M. Levy - 2001 - 340 strani
...phrase "at first sight." Here is one of Smith's most memorable contributions to the English language: To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. (Wealth of Nations, 613) Needless to say, Smith goes on to explain that first sight misleads. He reuses... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 2001 - 598 strani
...Wealth of Nntiont, again underlining the new mercantile erhos of the time. To found a great empite for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fir only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogerher unfir for a nation of shopkeepers;... | |
 | Wei-Bin Zhang - 2003 - 458 strani
...personal freedoms. One may quote Smith (1776 II: 129) to characterize the traditional Chinese system: "To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...nation whose Government is influenced by shopkeepers." This holds true for contemporary mainland China (and, arguably, some of today's leading nations), where... | |
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To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight, appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. 
