 | Luke Herbert - Industrial arts - 1827 - 524 pages
...producer;" but he also observes, " consomption is the sole end and purpose of all production ; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended...be necessary for promoting that of the consumer." That the same feeling governs the manufacturing system, of which the labouring classes constitute the... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...should go abroad to instruct foreignen. Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production ; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended...consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of tile producer ; and it seems to consider production, and not consumption, as the ultimate end and object... | |
 | Miles Gerald Keon - 1846 - 608 pages
...demand, at so unnecessarily high a price. Consumption being the sole end and purpose of all production, the interest of the producer ought to be attended...may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. But have we acted on this principle ? have we not rather acted on the principle that production and... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1869 - 870 pages
...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 fur as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident,... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - Interest - 1870 - 376 pages
...certainly to be abolished. Consumption is the sole end and purpose of production; and the interests of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as may be necessary for promoting the interests of the consumers. We have already seen that no country... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch, John Locke - Economics - 1870 - 372 pages
...certainly to be abolished. Consumption is the sole end and purpose of production ; and the interests of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as may be necessary for promoting the interests of the consumers. We have already seen that no country... | |
 | David Cunningham (civil engineer.) - 1878 - 470 pages
...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...promoting that of the consumer. ' The maxim is so self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system the interest... | |
 | David Cunningham (civil engineer.) - Moral conditions - 1878 - 424 pages
...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...promoting that of the consumer. ' The maxim is so self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system the interest... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1880 - 274 pages
...manufactures, by depressing those of our neighbours. Consumption is the sole end of all production ; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended...may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer, a maxim so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile... | |
 | William Godwin Moody - Agriculture - 1883 - 380 pages
...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...promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But the mercantile system seems to consider... | |
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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. 
