 What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our...  The Works of David Ricardo - Page 180by David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch - 1886 - 584 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Somerville - Free trade - 1853 - 676 pages
...What is prudence in the conduct of any private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity...employed in a way in which we have some advantage." " The natural advantages which one country has over another in producing particular commodities are sometimes... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - Scotland - 1855 - 368 pages
...What is prudence in the conduct of any private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity...employed in a way in which we have some advantage." " The natural advantages which one country has over another in producing particular commodities, are sometimes... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 502 pages
...is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity...better buy it of them with some part of the produce of onr own industry employed in a way in which we have some advantage. The general industry of the country... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 512 pages
...is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than wo ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with nome part nf the produce of our own industry employed... | |
 | John Elliott Cairnes - 1857 - 204 pages
...What is prudence in the conduct of a private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity...some advantage. The general industry of the country being always in proportion to the capital which employs it, will not thereby be diminished, no more... | |
 | Commerce - 1860 - 788 pages
...family can scarcely be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with я commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better...some advantage. The general industry of the country being always in proportion to the capital which employs it, will not thereby be diminished, no more... | |
 | Commerce - 1860 - 796 pages
...foreign country can supply us *'ith л commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy ¡' of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed ln a way in which we have some advantage. The general industry of 'he country being always in proportion... | |
 | William Henry Seward - New York (State) - 1853 - 698 pages
...commodity at a cheaper rate than we could manufacture if, it would be for our interest to purchase it with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a more profitable manner than in making the commodities referred to ; and that to give the monopoly of... | |
 | John Elliot Cairnes - Business & Economics - 1869 - 208 pages
...What is prudence in the conduct of a private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity...some advantage. The general industry of the country being always in proportion to the capital which employs it, will not thereby be diminished, no more... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1869 - 870 pages
...conduct of every private family, can \ t^ scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a fereign country '| can supply us with a commodity cheaper...some advantage. The general industry of the country, being always in proportion to the capital which employs it, will not thereby be diminished, no more... | |
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