 | 1828 - 722 pages
...kind belongs to every protecting duty and prohibition. He observes, in the words of Adam Smith, that it is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to make at home, what it will cost him more to make than to buy. The tailor does not make his own shoes,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 538 pages
...some measure to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, and must in almost all cases be either a useless or a hurtful...If it cannot, it must generally be hurtful. It is th$ maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 532 pages
...some measure to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, and must, in almost all cases, be either a useless or a hurtful regulation. If the produce of domestic can be bought there as cheap as that of foreign industry, the regulation is evidently useless. If it cannot,... | |
 | Francis d' Ivernois - Finance - 1814 - 356 pages
...Fon parvient jamais à lui faire comprendre ce principe élementaire d'Adam Smith ! — It î,i tfie maxim of every prudent master of a family , never to attempt to make at ftome , ivhat it tvill cost Mm -more to maî:e than to buy.... tvjiat is prudence in the con* ductof... | |
 | 1819 - 660 pages
...uscleis or a hurtful refulation. If the domestic firoiluce canoe brought there as cheap an that tffirajpn industry, the regulation is evidently useless. If it cannot, it must generally lie hurtful. •'It is the maxim of every prudent master of a *Montesg uieu, whose reputation was as... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Free trade - 1820 - 312 pages
...some measure to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals; and must, in almost all cases, be either a useless or a hurtful \regulation. If the domestic produce can be brought there as cheap as that of foreign industry, the regulation is evidently... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1822 - 562 pages
...employ their capitals, and must, in almost all cases, be either a useless or a hurtful regulationIf the produce of domestic can be brought there as cheap...industry, the regulation is evidently useless. If it can not, it must generally be hurtful. It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to... | |
 | Willard Phillips - Economics - 1828 - 286 pages
...all cases, be either a useless or hurtful regulation. If the produce of the domestic can be bought there as cheap as that of foreign industry, the regulation...useless ; if it cannot, it must generally be hurtful." In illustration of this proposition it is said, that " neither a tailor, shoemaker, or farmer, undertakes... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - Business & Economics - 1828 - 112 pages
...kind belongs to every protecting duty and prohibition. He observes, in the words of Adam Smith,* that it is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to make at home, what it will cost him more to make than to buy. The tailor does not make his own shoes,... | |
 | 1830 - 550 pages
...leave individuals to follow the dictates of their own good sense, sharpened by interest. "It is'the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home * We must except the coarser cottons, in which the price of the raw material forma a large portion... | |
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To give the monopoly of the home market to the produce of domestic industry, in any particular art or manufacture, is in some measure to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, and must, in almost all cases, be either... 
