| Alfred Milnes - 1920 - 264 páginas
...probably never will be better stated than in the words of Adam Smith in his immortal work : — It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never...attempt to make his own clothes, but employs a tailor. The farmer attempts to make neither the one nor the other, but employs those different artificers.... | |
| Frank William Taussig - 1921 - 586 páginas
...foreign industry, the regulation is evidently useless. If it cannot, it must generally be hurtful. It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family never...attempt to make his own clothes, but employs a tailor. The farmer attempts to make neither the one nor the other, but employs those different artificers.... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1921 - 660 páginas
...restraints on importation, appeals to the maxims upon which men act in private life ; when he remarks, that the tailor does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker, that the shoemaker does not attempt to make his own clothes, but employs a tailor; and when he concludes,... | |
| Brij Narain - 1922 - 592 páginas
...foreign industry, the regulation is evidently useless. If it cannot, it must generally be hurtful. It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never...what it will cost him more to make than to buy. The taylor does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them •of the shoemaker. The shoemaker does... | |
| Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - 1923 - 352 páginas
...temple of charity. CHAPTER XIV THE PROBLEM OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE THE THEORY OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE ' It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family never...home what it will cost him more to make than to buy. ... If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better... | |
| Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1925 - 104 páginas
...accordance with its natural capacity. Such methods were opposed to the common sense of ordinary life. ' ' The tailor does not attempt to make his own shoes,...attempt to make his own clothes, but employs a tailor." The analogy was obvious. " What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly... | |
| Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, Henry Higgs - 1926 - 886 páginas
...in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom." Nobody will make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy ; and the country will only buy goods from abroad if the goods can be supplied more cheaply there than... | |
| George Crompton - 1927 - 248 páginas
...would obtain the largest possible share of the things he procures in the world's market." * "It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never...make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker. 1 W. Cunningham, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edition, Vol. XI, p. 89. Perhaps it ought to be stated... | |
| Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1927 - 186 páginas
...nation of the world, with a mercantile marine equal to that of all other nations combined : — " It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family never...what it will cost him more to make than to buy. The taylor does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker. The shoemaker does not... | |
| Friedrich List - 1928 - 726 páginas
...""'i. Z. io . . Schuster * Vgl. Smith, Wealth I, S. 422: „It is the maxim of every prudent master of family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost liiui more to make than to buy. The taylor 'does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of... | |
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