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" By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised- in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries. "
A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen - Page 286
by Thomas Thomson - 1855
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From Adam Smith to Michael Porter: Evolution of Competitiveness Theory

Dong-Sung Cho, Tong-sŏng Cho, Hwy-Chang Moon - 2000 - 252 pages
...acknowledged by all the world to be in vain to struggle with them. By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hotwalls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expence for which at least equally good can be brought...
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Commonsense Constructivism, Or, The Making of World Affairs

Ralph Pettman - 2000 - 260 pages
...commodities." As an example he cites the fact that "[b]y means of glasses, hotbeds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine, too, can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought...
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U.S. Trade Policy: History, Theory, and the WTO

William Anthony Lovett, Alfred E. Eckes, Richard L. Brinkman - 2004 - 256 pages
...glasses, hotbeds, and hotwalls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense...equally good can be brought from foreign countries" (Smith 1937, 425). "Smith finds the fundamental basis for foreign trade, viewed statically in what...
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On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical Companion

Samuel Fleischacker - 2009 - 352 pages
...foolishness of protectionism by way of an amusing example: By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hotwalls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expence for which at least equally good can be brought...
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U. S. Trade Policy: History, Theory and the WTO

William A. Lovett, Alfred E. Eckes, Jr., Richard L. Brinkman - 2004 - 252 pages
...offered in textbooks and mainstream, orthodox literature. "By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hotwalls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought...
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United States History: Eyes on the Economy. Volume One: Through the Civil War

Mark C. Schug, Jean Caldwell, Donald R. Wentworth, Beth Kraig, Robert J. Highsmith - 1993 - 176 pages
...glasses, hotbeds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and rery good wine, too, can be made of them, at about thirty times the expense for which at least as good can be bought from foreign countries. Would it be reasonable law to prohibit the importation...
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A New Vision of History

R. N. Vyas - 2005 - 284 pages
...world to being vain to struggle with them," observes Smith. "By means of glasses hotbeds and hotwalls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be bought...
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Fairness in the World Economy: US Perspectives on International Trade Relations

Americo Beviglia Zampetti - 2006 - 231 pages
...57. In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith remarked that 'by means of glasses, hotbeds, and hotwalls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought...
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The Pure Theory of International Trade

Miltiades Chacholiades - 470 pages
...employed in a way in which we have some advantage. ... By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hotwalls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be bought...
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The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering the Six Classics of Economics

Michael Lewis - 2007 - 1476 pages
...by all the world to be in vain to struggle with them. By means of glasses, hot-beds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine, too, can be made of them, at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be...
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