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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. "
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - Page 243
by Adam Smith - 1811
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2

Adam Smith - Division of labor - 1786 - 538 pages
...evidently ufelefs. If it cannot, it muft generally be hurtful. It is the maxim of eve/y prudent mafter of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will coft him more to make than to buy. The taylor does not .attempt to make his own fhoes, but buys them...
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De la richesse commerciale: ou principes d'économie politique ..., Volume 1

Jean Charles L. Simonde de Sismondi - 1803 - 450 pages
...Géorgofiles de Florence , et . de la Société d'Agriculture de Genève. TOME PREMIER. " IT is the maxiin of every prudent master of a family , never to attempt...home what it will cost him more to make than to buy what is prudence in the comlutt pf every private family, can scarce befolly in that of a greât Kingdom...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 48

1828 - 722 pages
...observes, in the words of Adam Smith, that it is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to make at home, what it will cost 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...
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De la richesse commerciale: ou, Principes d'économie politique ..., Volume 1

Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi - Economics - 1803 - 446 pages
...Géorgofiles de Florence , et i de la Société d'Agriculture de Genève. TOME PREMIER. " IT is thé maxira of every prudent master of a family. never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him mort to make than to lniy ..... what is prudence in thé conduct Of every private family, can scarce...
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De la richesse commerciale ou principes d'économie politique ..., Volume 2

Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi - Economics - 1803 - 460 pages
...Société d'Agriculture de Genève. TOME SECOND. " IT is the nuxini of evcry prudent master of a famil y never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make tban to buy «lut is prudence in the conduct ofeveryprivate family- canscarce befully in tbat of a...
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The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 544 pages
...evidently ufelefs. If it cannot, it muft generally be hurtful. It is the maxim of every prudent mafter of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will coft him more to make than to buy. The taylor does not attempt to make his own fhoes, but buys them...
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An Inquiry Into the Various Systems of Political Economy: Their Advantages ...

Charles Ganilh - Economics - 1812 - 520 pages
...he teaches the direct contrary when the question is of purchasing abroad. " It is," he says, " the maxim of every prudent master of a family, ' never...attempt to make his own clothes, but employs a tailor. All of them find it for their interest to employ their whole industry in a way in which they have some...
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The American Review of History and Politics, and General ..., Volume 4

Europe - 1812 - 500 pages
...he teaches the direct contrary when the question is of purchasing abroad." " It is," he says, " the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to...attempt to make his own clothes, but employs a tailor. All of them find it for their interest to employ their whole industry in a way in which they have some...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1814 - 528 pages
...importation, appeals to the maxims upon which men act in private life ; when he remarks, that the taylor 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 taylor ; and when he concludes,...
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Napoléon administrateur et financier

Francis d' Ivernois - Finance - 1814 - 356 pages
...Fon parvient jamais à lui faire comprendre ce principe élementaire d'Adam Smith ! — It î,i tfie maxim of every prudent master of a family , never to attempt to make at ftome , ivhat it tvill cost Mm -more to maî:e than to buy.... tvjiat is prudence in the con* ductof...
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