Adam Smith
Adam Smith
Adam Smith– 17 July 1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher, pioneer of political economy, and a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth5 June 1723
hitting problem economics
Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back
complaining economics all-time
Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
progressive-taxation rich economics
It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.
affluence economics inequality
Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
wise men economic-order
The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it
uniforms wages economics
Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.
country citizens economics
A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
division economics labour
The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market
invisible-hand kingdoms economic
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
men economics live-by
Every man lives by exchanging.
people prosperity economics
A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.
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Every individual...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; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, 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.
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