„Keine Kunst lernt eine Regierung schneller als die, Geld aus den Taschen der Leute zu ziehen.“
The Wealth of Nations, Book V
Adam Smith [smɪθ], FRSA , war ein schottischer Moralphilosoph und Aufklärer und gilt als Begründer der klassischen Nationalökonomie.
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„Keine Kunst lernt eine Regierung schneller als die, Geld aus den Taschen der Leute zu ziehen.“
The Wealth of Nations, Book V
Die Theorie der ethischen Gefühle
„Was man Zuneigung nennt, ist in Wirklichkeit nichts andres als Sympathie der Gewohnheit.“
Theorie der moralischen Empfindungen
Untersuchungen über die Natur und die Ursachen des Nationalreichthums. Aus dem Englischen der vierten Ausgabe neu übersetzt. Zweyter Band. Breslau 1794. S. 206 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=XzdFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA206 <br class="br">Original engl.: "A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible." - The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book III Chapter 2: Of the Discouragement of Agriculture in the ancient State of Europe after the Fall of the Roman Empire. en.wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_III/Chapter_2 <br class="br">An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
zitiert in Staats-Lexikon oder Encyklopädie der Staatswissenschaften, herausgegeben von Carl von Rotteck und Karl [Theodor] Welcker. Funfzehnter Band. Altona 1843. Sichwort: Stempel S. 159 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=IzUNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA159<br><br>The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book V Chapter 2 Part 2: Of Taxes. en.wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_V/Chapter_2 <br class="br">An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
Adam Smith buch Theorie der ethischen Gefühle
Theorie der sittlichen Gefühle. Übersetzt von Ludwig Theobul Kosegarten. Leipzig 1791 S. 3 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=2P0AAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA3 <br class="br">"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it." - The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part I Section I Chapter I: Of Sympathy (Der erste Satz des Buches). en.wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Moral_Sentiments/Part_I <br class="br">The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
zitiert in Staats-Lexikon oder Encyklopädie der Staatswissenschaften, herausgegeben von Carl von Rotteck und Karl [Theodor] Welcker. Funfzehnter Band. Altona 1843. Sichwort: Stempel S. 159 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=IzUNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA159 <br class="br">Original engl.: "There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people." - The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book V Chapter 2 Part 2: Of Taxes. en.wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_V/Chapter_2 <br class="br">An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
Adam Smith buch Der Wohlstand der Nationen
Untersuchungen über das Wesen und die Ursachen des Nationalreichthums. Deutsch von Max Stirner. Erster Band. Leipzig 1846. S. 110 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=iidFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA110<br><br>Original engl.: "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable." - The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I Chapter 8: Of the Wages of Labour. en.wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_I/Chapter_8) <br class="br">An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
Adam Smith buch Der Wohlstand der Nationen
Untersuchungen über das Wesen und die Ursachen des Nationalreichthums. Deutsch von Max Stirner. Erster Band. Leipzig 1846. S. 26 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=iidFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA26 <br class="br">Original engl.: "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." - The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I Chapter 2: Of the Principle which gives Occasion to the Division of Labour. en.wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_I/Chapter_2 <br class="br">An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
Adam Smith buch Theorie der ethischen Gefühle
Theorie der ethischen Gefühle. Deutsch von Walther Eckstein (1926). Felix Meiner Hamburg 2010 S. 357 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=YJklX6GnvoYC&pg=PT423 <br class="br">Original engl.: "What is called affection, is in reality nothing but habitual sympathy." - The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part VI Section II Chapter I: Of the Order in which Individuals are recommended by Nature to our care and attention. en.wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Moral_Sentiments/Part_VI <br class="br">The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
Quelle: (1776), Book II, Chapter I, p. 313 (see opportunity cost).
Quelle: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, p. 820.
Adam Smith buch Theorie der ethischen Gefühle
Section III.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part VI
Quelle: (1776), Book IV, Chapter II, p. 490.
Quelle: (1776), Book IV, Chapter I, p. 479.
Quelle: (1776), Book I, Chapter VIII, p. 80.
Quelle: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part IV, Conclusion, p. 881.
Quelle: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, p. 845.
“But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does.”
Quelle: (1776), Book V, Chapter III, Part V, p. 987.
Quelle: (1776), Book IV, Chapter V, Digression, p. 572.
Quelle: (1776), Book I, Chapter VIII, p. 97.
Quelle: (1776), Book V, Chapter II, Part II, p. 896.
“Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.”
Adam Smith buch Theorie der ethischen Gefühle
Section II, Chap. III.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part I
Quelle: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book IV, Chapter II
“China is a much richer country than any part of Europe.”
Quelle: (1776), Book I, Chapter XI, Part III, (First Period) p. 221.
Quelle: (1776), Book IV, Chapter V, paragraph 82.
Quelle: (1776), Book I, Chapter IV, p. 34.
Quelle: (1776), Book II, Chapter III, p. 377.
“The great affair, we always find, is to get money.”
Quelle: (1776), Book IV, Chapter I, p. 460.
Quelle: (1776), Book V, Chapter III, Part V, p. 1012.
“Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system.”
Quelle: (1776), Book IV, Chapter VII, Part Third, p. 684.
Adam Smith buch Theorie der ethischen Gefühle
Chap. I.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part IV
Quelle: (1776), Book IV, Chapter II
Quelle: (1776), Book I, Chapter XI, Part II, p. 202 (See also Thorstein Veblen).
Adam Smith buch Theorie der ethischen Gefühle
Chap. II.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part V
Adam Smith buch Theorie der ethischen Gefühle
Section III, Chap. II.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part I