 | Peter J. Dougherty - 2003 - 240 trang
...thinkers before him and has remained one for collectivists since.) Smith recognized, in humans, "a desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, conies with us from the womb, and never leaves us until the grave," and an equally compelling penchant... | |
 | Adam Smith - 2004 - 260 trang
...restrained, is in general only momentary and occasional. But the principle which prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which,...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave. In the whole interval which separates those two moments, there is scarce perhaps a single instant in... | |
 | Samuel Fleischacker - 2009 - 352 trang
...restrained, is in general only momentary and occasional. But the principle which prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which,...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave. In the whole interval which separates those two moments, there is scarce perhaps a single instant in... | |
 | Mark Olssen, John A Codd, Anne-Marie O'Neill - 2004 - 340 trang
...the capacity for kindness, nevertheless the acquisitive drives were recognized by him as persistent: 'a desire which though generally calm and dispassionate,...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave' (Smith, 1976b: 341).24 In The Wealth of Nations (1976b: 341), Smith saw men as actuated by the 'desire... | |
 | Stephen M. Best - 2010 - 375 trang
...occasional. But the principle that prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire that, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave. In the whole interval that separates those two moments, there is scarce, perhaps, a single instance... | |
 | Stephen M. Best - 2004 - 384 trang
...the desire of bettering our condition, a desire that, though generally calm and dispassionate, conies with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave. In the whole interval that separates those two moments, there is scarce, perhaps, a single instance... | |
 | Heonik Kwon - 2006 - 246 trang
...puritanical attitude toward money, wrote that the principle of parsimony that prompts us to save is "the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which,...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave." The Wealth of Nations (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970), p. 305. 51. Marilyn Strathern, The Gender of... | |
 | Svetozar Minkov, Stéphane Douard - 2006 - 416 trang
...can be "violent" but is usually "momentary and occasional," the principle which prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which,...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave. In the whole interval which separates those two moments, there is scarce perhaps a single instant in... | |
 | Hans-Joachim Stadermann, Otto Steiger - 2006 - 416 trang
...York: Modern Library, 1937, Buch II, Kapitel II, S. 324. „The principle which prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which,...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave. In the whole interval which separates those two moments, there is scarce perhaps a single instant in... | |
 | Michael D. Chan - 2006 - 249 trang
...left to itself, is sufficient to induce individuals to seek the most profitable mode of employment: the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which,...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave. . . . The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle... | |
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With regard to profusion, the principle which prompts to expense is the passion for present enjoyment; which, though sometimes violent and very difficult to be restrained, is in general only momentary and occasional. But the principle which prompts to... 
