 | Michael Common, Sigrid Stagl - 2005 - 600 ページ
...necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it ... he is, in this as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of... | |
 | William J. Talbott - 2005 - 232 ページ
...learn. I discuss Lee's challenge to human rights in chapter 8. 7 POLITICAL RIGHTS He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. ... He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote... | |
 | Karl Farmer - 2005 - 302 ページ
...necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security;... | |
 | Steve Murdoch - 2006 - 450 ページ
...and Scotland. Enriching Scotland Adam Smith may have been right when he stated that the entrepreneur 'neither intends to promote the public interest nor knows how much he is promoting it'. 91 Nonetheless, the importance of these individuals is that, inadvertently or not, they did promote... | |
 | Michael Harrison Smith - 2013 - 568 ページ
...necessarily labours to rend the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally indeed neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security,... | |
 | John C. Bogle - 2005 - 292 ページ
...powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement. . . . Each individual neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it ... [but] by directing his industry in such a matter as its produce may be of the greatest value, he... | |
 | Ning Wang - 2005 - 218 ページ
...necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security;... | |
 | Stephen G. Alter - 2005 - 372 ページ
...Nations (1776), which included the following portrayal of the economic actor: "He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it — [ H ] e intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce... | |
 | Steven D. Lydenberg - 2005 - 212 ページ
...to promote an end which was no part of his intention." This man of business, as Smith described him, "neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it," yet he is, in fact, doing so.7 Smith's metaphor of the invisible hand has led some to imagine a smoothly... | |
 | Guido Pincione, Fernando R. Tesón - 2006 - 249 ページ
...self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their own advantages .. . [The individual] neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it... he intends only his own gain and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote... | |
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... he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. 
