 | 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...may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident, that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the... | |
 | 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...be necessary for promoting that of the consumer." That the same feeling governs the manufacturing system, of which the labouring classes constitute the... | |
 | 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...may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident, that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the... | |
 | 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...may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. But have we acted on this principle ? have we not rather acted on the principle that production and... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch, John Locke - 1870 - 372 pages
...certainly to be abolished. Consumption is the sole end and purpose of production ; and the interests of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as may be necessary for promoting the interests of the consumers. We have already seen that no country... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1870 - 376 pages
...certainly to be abolished. Consumption is the sole end and purpose of production; and the interests of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as may be necessary for promoting the interests of the consumers. We have already seen that no country... | |
 | 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...may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident, that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the... | |
 | 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...may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident, that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the... | |
 | 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...may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. ' The maxim is so self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile... | |
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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. 
