 | Adam Smith - Division of labor - 1786 - 538 pages
...individual is continually exerting himfelf to find out the moft advantageous employVOL. II. N ment K ment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the fociety, which he has in view. But the ftudy of his own advantage naturally, or rather neceflarily... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1789 - 550 pages
...EVERY individual is continually exerting himfclf to find out the moft advantageous employBOOK ment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the fociety, which he has in view. But the ftudy of his own advantage naturally, or rather necefTarily... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1801 - 362 pages
...have gone of its own accord. Every individual is continually exerting himfelf to find out the moft advantageous employment for whatever capital he can...is his own advantage , indeed , and not that of the fociety, which he has in view. But the ftudy of his own advantage naturally , or rather neceffarily... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 532 pages
...to be more advantageous to the society, than that into which it would have gone of its own accord. . Every individual is continually exerting himself to...the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily,leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society. First, every... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 538 pages
...to be more advantageous to the society, than that into which it would have gone of its own accord. Every individual is continually exerting himself to...for whatever capital he can command. It is his own ad vantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 852 pages
...is continually exerting himfelf to find out the mofl advantageous employVOL. in. N merit BOOK ment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the fociety, which he has in view. But the ftudy of his own advantage naturally, or rather neceflarily... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1822 - 562 pages
...likely to be more advantageous to the society than that into which it would have gone of its own accord. Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employVOL. II. N merit for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Commercial law - 1824 - 1090 pages
...celebrated writers, Smith, Hume, Paley, and Malthus, are uniform. Dr. Adam Smith (2) observes, that " every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment: it is his Own advantage indeed, and not that of society, which he has in view; but the study of his... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Economics - 1826 - 302 pages
...would have gone of its own accord. Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out 4he most advantageous employment for whatever capital...command. It is his own advantage indeed, and not that of -society that he has in view; but this necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most... | |
 | John Gray - Economics - 1831 - 400 pages
...advan" tageous methods of employing his capital " and labour. It is true that it is his own " advantage, and not that of the society, " which he has in view ; but a society being " nothing more than a collection of indivi" duals, it is plain that each, in steadily... | |
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Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally... 
