 | Alonzo Potter - 1841 - 484 páginas
...making at home what it would cost him more to make than to buy. The tailor, as Dr. Smith has remarked, does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of a shoemaker ; the shoemaker, on his part, does not attempt to make his own clothes, but employs a tailor... | |
 | Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart - 1843 - 762 páginas
...foreign industry, the regulation is evidently useless. If it cannot, it must generally be hurtful. It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family,...at home what it will cost him more to make than to l>n The tailor does not attempt to make his own shoe; but buys them of the shoemaker. The shoemalcc... | |
 | Sir Robert Peel - 1849 - 82 páginas
...illustrates the great doctrines of Political Economy, by a reference to the simplest transactions. He says, " It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family...him more to make than to buy. The tailor does not make his own shoes but buys them of the shoemaker. The shoemaker does not make his own clothes, but... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1849 - 686 páginas
...does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them from a shoemaker ; the shoemaker, on his part, does not attempt to make his own clothes, but employs a tailor ; and the farmer makes neither the one nor the other, but obtains them in exchange for corn and cattle.... | |
 | 1850 - 608 páginas
...but amplified, and we might almost say perverted, by Sir Robert Peel. ' The tailor,' says Smith, ' does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them...shoemaker does not attempt to make his own clothes, but buys them of the tailor.' This merely exemplifies the advantage of division of employments. Pursuing... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1850 - 612 páginas
...but amplified, and we might almost say perverted, by Sir Robert Peel. ' The tailor,' says Smith, ' does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them...shoemaker does not attempt to make his own clothes, but buys them of the tailor.' This merely exemplifies the advantage of division of employments. Pursuing... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 páginas
...restraints on importation, appeals to the maxims upon which men act in private life ; when he remarks that the tailor does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker ; that the shoemaker does not attempt to make his own clothes, but employs a tailor ; and when he concludes,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 páginas
...on importation, appeals to the i maxims upon which men act in private life ; when he remarks I that the tailor does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker ; that the shoemaker does not attempt to make his own clothes, but employs a tailor ; and when he concludes,... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - 1855 - 368 páginas
...at home, what it will cost him more to make than to buy. The tailor ADAM SMITH, LL.D., FRS does nut attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker ; the shoemaker doei not attempt to make his own clothes, but employs a tailor. The former attempts to make neither... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 512 páginas
...foreign industry, the regulation is evidently useless. If it cannot, it must generally be hurtful. It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family,...shoemaker. The shoemaker does not attempt to make In-- own clothes, but employs a tailor. The farmer attempts to make neither the one nor the other,... | |
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It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy. 
