The National System of Political EconomyLongmans, Green, 1904 - 366 páginas |
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Adam Smith advantage agri agricultural nation agricultural products agriculturist attained balance of trade centners circumstances civilisation colonial produce commercial policy competition condition consequence consumption Continental Continental system continually corn corn laws cosmopolitical cotton countries cultivation culture division of labour England English manufactured especially established exchange existence export facturing favour fisheries foreign trade France free trade freedom French German Government greater Hanseatic Hanseatic League Hence Holland important increase independence individual influence interests internal J. B. Say landed property latter laws maintain manu manufacturing industry manufacturing nation manufacturing power material capital mental merchants merely Methuen Treaty native nature naval power navigation North America political economy population Portugal possession powers of production precious metals productive powers progress promote prosperity protective duties protective system raw materials rent requires respect restrictions Russia Spain supremacy tariff tariff of 1828 territory theory tion towns Treaty union United wealth whole woollen Zollverein
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Página 296 - Any nation which by means of protective duties and restrictions on navigation has raised her manufacturing power and her navigation to such a degree of development that no other nation can sustain free competition with her, can do nothing wiser than to throw away these ladders of her greatness, to preach to other nations the benefits of free trade, and to declare in penitent tones that she has hitherto wandered in the paths of error, and has now for the first time succeeded in discovering the truth.
Página 20 - A merchant, it has been I said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country. It is in a great measure indifferent to him from what place he carries on his trade; and a very trifling disgust will make him remove his capital, and together with it all the industiy which it supports, from one country to another.
Página xviii - The present state of the nations is the result of the accumulation of all discoveries, inventions, improvements, perfections, and exertions of all generations which have lived before us ; they form the mental capital of the present human race...
Página xiv - To propose that Great Britain should voluntarily give up all authority over her colonies, and leave them to elect their own magistrates, to enact their own laws, and to make peace and war as they might think proper, would be to propose such a measure as never was and never will be adopted by any nation in the world.
Página xiv - Even though the martial spirit of the people were of no use towards the defence of the society, yet to prevent that sort of mental mutilation, deformity, and wretchedness, which cowardice necessarily involves in it, from spreading themselves through the great body of the people, would still deserve the most serious attention of government...
Página xlii - When afterwards I visited the United States, I cast all books aside — they would only have tended to mislead me. The best work on political economy which one can read in that modern land is actual life. There one may see wildernesses grow into rich and mighty States ; and progress which requires centuries in Europe, goes on there before one's eyes, viz.
Página 341 - On the development of the German protective system depend the existence, the independence, and the future of German nationality. Only in the soil of general prosperity does the national spirit strike its roots, produce fine blossoms and rich fruits ; only from the unity of material interests does mental power arise, and only from both of these national power.
Página 141 - Between each individual and entire humanity, however, stands the nation, with its special language and literature, with its peculiar origin and history, with its special manners and customs, laws and institutions, with the claims of all these for existence, independence, perfection and continuance for the future...
Página 35 - England permit to be used. She would have none of these beautiful and cheap fabrics, but preferred to consume her own inferior and more costly stuffs. She was, however, quite willing to supply the Continental nations with the far finer fabrics of India at lower prices, and willingly yielded to them all the benefit of that cheapness; she herself would have none of it. Was England a fool in so acting? Most assuredly, according to the theories of Adam Smith and JB Say the Theory of Values. For, according...
Página 142 - It is the task of politics to civilise the barbarous nationalities, to make the small and weak ones great and strong, but, above all, to secure to them existence and continuance. It is the task of national economy to accomplish the economical development of the nation, and to prepare it for admission into the universal society of the future.