 | Harvey C. Mansfield (Jr.) - 2000 - 362 ページ
...satisfied with his situation. Smith's indirectness is provocatively revealed by his elaboration of "the means by which the greater part of men propose and wish to better their condition": increased wealth. In asserting that this conception of betterment is only "the most vulgar and the... | |
 | Charles Gide, Charles Rist - 2000 - 728 ページ
...men propose and wish to better their eondition. It is the means the must vulgar and the most obvious; and the most likely way of augmenting their fortune, is to save and aeeumulate some part of what they aequire." This desire is so powerful that even the greatest follies... | |
 | Albino F. Barrera, OP - 2001 - 360 ページ
...bettering our condition ... comes with us from the womb and never leaves us until we go to the grave.... An augmentation of fortune is the means by which the...of men propose and wish to better their condition (Smith [1776] 1937, book II, chap. Ill, 324-25). Every individual is continually exerting himself to... | |
 | Christina Petsoulas - 2001 - 220 ページ
...till we go into the grave' and which manifests itself in man's incessant effort to accumulate wealth: 'an augmentation of fortune is the means by which...greater part of men propose and wish to better their condition'.160 It is, according to Smith, vanity, ambition, the desire for recognition, or, in more... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 ページ
...shopkeepers. Restlessness, stated Smith, was the spur to opulence, 'an augmentation of fortune' being the means by which 'the greater part of men propose and wish to better their condition'. 39 Commercial society thus squared with human nature. What was truly 'unnatural', it followed, was... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 ページ
...shopkeepers. Restlessness, stated Smith, was the spur to opulence, 'an augmentation of fortune' being the means by which 'the greater part of men propose and wish to better their condition'.39 Commercial society thus squared with human nature. What was truly 'unnatural', it followed,... | |
 | Henry S. Turner - 2002 - 324 ページ
...and dispassionate, comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave. ... An augmentation of fortune is the means by which the...augmenting their fortune, is to save and accumulate. ... in the greater part of men, taking the whole course of their life at an average, the principle... | |
 | Richard R. Ellsworth - 2002 - 423 ページ
...human motivation, one that "comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave. An augmentation of fortune is the means by which the...of men propose and wish to better their condition. It is the means the most vulgar and the most obvious."67 Interestingly, Smith believed that people... | |
 | Jim Alvey - 2003 - 344 ページ
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An augmentation of fortune is the means by which the greater part of men propose and wish to better their condition. 
