| Adam Smith - Economics - 1789 - 526 pages
...would foon force back its price to that proper rate which the circumftances of the fociety required. It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, neceflarily regulates the production of men ; quickens it when it goes on... | |
| 1810 - 538 pages
...which proportion the reward of labour to rhe extent of the funds for its support, justly. observes, ' It is in « this manner that the demand for men, like that for any ether com* niodity, necessarily regulates the production of mm 4— quickens * it, when it... | |
| Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 452 pages
...circumstances of the society required. It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production...quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too fast. It is this demand which regulates and determines the state of propagation... | |
| Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 582 pages
...would foon force back its price to that proper rate which the circumftances of the fociety required. It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, neceflarily regulates the production of men ; quickens it when it goes on... | |
| Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 520 pages
...would foon force back its price to that proper rate which the circumftances of the fociety required. It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, neceflarily regulates the production of men ; quickens it when it goes on... | |
| Simon Gray - Malthusianism - 1818 - 550 pages
...Dr. Adam Smith has observed in a rather irreverent tone, that « the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production...quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too fast -j-." This is too generally r .•:•••» t. .;» ,.i •• f •.*... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch - Economics - 1825 - 446 pages
...subsisting, a marriage invariably takes place. " The demand for men," says Dr Smith, " like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production...quickens it when it goes on too slowly ; and stops it when it advances too fast. It is this demand which regulates and determines the state of population... | |
| sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan (8th bart.) - 1845 - 840 pages
...find in Adam Smith, " The demand for men," (or, in other words, subsistence.) " like that for every other commodity, necessarily regulates the production...quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too fast." Aristotle and Plato* both perceived the same power of population and... | |
| Thomas Taylor Meadows - China - 1847 - 350 pages
...following, sufficiently prove. Smith, in his " Wealth of Nations," says: " The demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production...quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too fast. It is this demand which regulates and determines the state of population... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch - Economics - 1849 - 686 pages
...The same principle has been laid down by Smith : — " The demand for men," says he, " like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production...quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too fast. It is this demand which regulates and determines the state of population... | |
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