| Dimitris N. Chorafas - 1992 - 306 páginas
...an entrenched capitalistic authority. They judged wrong and now pay the damages. Adam Smith wrote: "To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 páginas
...R. SEELEY (1834-95), English classicist, historian. The Expansion of England, Lecture I 11883). 17 @ێ, It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation... | |
| John A. Hall - 1994 - 1139 páginas
...trade of the colonies. Adam Smith's comment on the monopolistic aspects of this policy was more acid: "To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, I project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation... | |
| Julia Vitullo-Martin, J. Robert Moskin - 1994 - 402 páginas
...they do not want to see is unlimited." OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN, lyricist (New York Times, March 7, 1991) "To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation... | |
| John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 664 páginas
...particular the Smithian view that colonies were a wasteful construction for the benefit of merchants: To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, ... is ... a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose... | |
| J. W. Smith - 1994 - 580 páginas
...foreign powers. Capitalism's leading philosopher, Adam Smith, pointed out that "England had founded a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers.. ..The maintenance of this monopoly has hitherto been the principal, or more properly perhaps the sole... | |
| Northrop Frye, Helen Kemp Frye - 1996 - 506 páginas
...Norrie. 1 See Letter 46, n. 6, above. 2 Edith Burnett's allusion is to the statement of Adam Smith: "To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers" (Wealth of Nations [1776], vol. 2, bk. 4, chap. 7, pt. 3). Napoleon, probably without reference to... | |
| Miles Kahler - 1997 - 342 páginas
...foreign policies that are inimical to the nation as a whole. Of imperialism, for example, Smith noted: To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 páginas
...of the Succession in Spain," Edinburgh Review (Jan. 1 833). Critical and Historical Essays (1843). 8 To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation... | |
| Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 páginas
...first found in Smith's The Wealth of Nations, again underlining the new mercantile ethos of the time. To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation... | |
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