 | Adam Smith - 1809 - 514 pages
...part of this small number should go abroad to instruct foreigners. Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production ; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident,... | |
 | Luke Herbert - 1827 - 524 pages
...constantly sacrificed to that of the producer;" but he also observes, " consomption is the sole end and purpose of all production ; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer." That the same feeling governs the manufacturing... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1836 - 538 pages
...should go abroad to instruct foreigners. Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; awd the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident,... | |
 | Miles Gerald Keon - 1846 - 608 pages
...demand, at so unnecessarily high a price. Consumption being the sole end and purpose of all production, the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. But have we acted on this principle ? have... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 870 pages
...part of this small number should go abroad to instruct foreigners. Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production ; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so fur as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident,... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - 1872 - 730 pages
...an equal value of gold and silver." In Book IV. ch. 8, he says — " Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all Production ; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...part of this small number should go abroad to instruct foreigners. Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production ; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident,... | |
 | David Cunningham (civil engineer.) - 1878 - 470 pages
...century since cannot well be too often recalled to mind. He says : — ' Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production, and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. ' The maxim is so self-evident that it would... | |
 | David Cunningham (civil engineer.) - 1878 - 424 pages
...century since cannot well be too often recalled to mind. He says : — ' Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production, and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. ' The maxim is so self-evident that it would... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1880 - 274 pages
...to extend our own manufactures, by depressing those of our neighbours. Consumption is the sole end of all production ; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer, a maxim so perfectly self-evident that it... | |
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. 
