899. (9-9-2010) What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. - Adam Smith – T...

894. (9-3-2010) The general industry of the society never can exceed what the capital of the society can employ….No regulation of c...

887. (8-31-2010) (Balance of Trade)ATJ That when the country exported to a greater value than it imported, a balance became due to it fr...

884. (8-27-2010) But men in [a] defenceless [sic] state naturally content themselves with their necessary subsistence, because to a...

871. (8-13-2010) The Stock which is lent at interest is always considered as a capital by the lender. He expects that in due time i...

864. (8-9-2010) (The next is important in context of the people in government and how and where they choose to spend our tax dollar...

857. (8-5-2010) The proportion between capital and revenue, therefore, seems everywhere to regulate the proportion between industry and ...

850. (8-4-2010) (On Competition)ATJ By dividing the whole circulation into a great number of parts, the failure of any one company, an a...

846. (7-13-2010) In order to put industry into motion, three things are requisite; materials to work upon, tools to work with, and the w...

838. (6-17-2010) The stock that is laid out in a house, if it is to be the dwelling-house of the proprietor, ceases from that moment to ...

836. (6-17-2010) (The understanding of how stock can be put to use to bring in greater amounts of revenue, lifting it’s possessor t...

832. (5-28-2010) (An example to the extent that government did control the lives of the people, down to the very cloth they were ab...

826. (5-23-2010) When we are in want of necessaries we must part with all superfluities, of which the value, as it rises in times o...

815. (5-11-2010) This at least would be the case in a society where things were left to follow their natural course, where there wa...

805. The demand for those who live by wages, therefore, necessarily increases with the increase of revenue and stock (money available to...

799. (5-2-2010) (In this next section, the idea is that the owner of the capital, assuming the risks, wants a proportional profit w...

797. (5-1-2010) Equal quantities of labour [sic], at all times and places, may be said to be of equal value to the labourer. In his...

789. (4-25-2010) Experience should teach us, to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes are benefice...

785. (4-25-2010) The historical evidence indicates that property can coexist with arbitrary and even oppressive political power, wh...

778. (4-21-2010) [I]mmense concentration of citizen’s wealth in the hands of the government carries with it…dangers to individual libert...