 | Lita Epstein, Charles Jaco, Julianne C. Iwersen-Niemann - 2003 - 340 páginas
...humanity's mastery of nature and their use of knowledge to make life better — became an end unto itself. To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a peope of customers may at first sight appear a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers,... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 460 páginas
...to a single order of men is in many different ways hurtful to the general interest of the country. To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but... | |
 | Denis Patrick O'Brien - 2004 - 458 páginas
...mercantilist policy — policy for the benefit of merchants at the cost of the rest of the community: To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but... | |
 | Victor Buchli - 2004 - 542 páginas
...the British economy as a whole.63 That early prophet of free trade, Adam Smith, understood this well: "To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but... | |
 | Bregje van Eekelen, Jennifer A. González, Bettina Stötzer, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing - 2004 - 198 páginas
...out dictators, shipping in private contractors, philosophers and constitutions. Anyone say pirate? To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but... | |
 | David A. Westbrook - 2004 - 364 páginas
...The phrase nation of shopkeepers arose in the context of Adam Smith's discussion of colonial empire: To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...a people of customers may at first sight appear a proiect fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation... | |
 | Wei-Bin Zhang - 2006 - 212 páginas
...institutions for freedom. One may quote Smith to characterize traditional Chinese governing as follows: "To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 páginas
...the colonies, without in the least increasing that of the country in whose favour it is established. To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...may at first sight, appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but... | |
 | Robert Gibson - 2004 - 336 páginas
...Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). In Book IV, Chapter 7, Smith stated: 'To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...may, at first sight, appear a project fit only for a nation of shop-keepers.' Smith's was a book that Napoleon is known to have read. In the following year,... | |
 | David John Farmer - 2005 - 248 páginas
...misleading economic symbols, like those of the invisible hand and the corporation as an artificial person. To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but... | |
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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. 
