 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 514 pages
...are unwilling, however, that any 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 far as it may be necessary for promoting... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1872 - 730 pages
...the value of £100,000, as by 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 producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...are unwilling, however, that any 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 far as it may be necessary for promoting... | |
 | David Cunningham (civil engineer.) - 1878 - 470 pages
...days. What Adam Smith wrote a 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 producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that... | |
 | David Cunningham (civil engineer.) - Moral conditions - 1878 - 424 pages
...days. What Adam Smith wrote a 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 producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that... | |
 | William Godwin Moody - Agriculture - 1883 - 380 pages
...every industry in the work of reproduction. Upon this point Adam Smith is very clear. He says : — " 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... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Science - 1887 - 516 pages
...The teaching of Professor Cairnes is in complete harmony with that of Adam Smith, who tells us that "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... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1896 - 778 pages
...the value of ^100,000, as by an equal value of gold and silver." In Book IV. ch. viii., he says — "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... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - Economists - 1904 - 260 pages
...lays down a maxim "so perfectly self-evident, that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it " : — " 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... | |
 | Economics - 1907 - 642 pages
...production the be-all and the end-all of their pseudo-science. Let Adam Smith answer for himself : 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... | |
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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. 
