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Adam Smith [smɪθ], FRSA , war ein schottischer Moralphilosoph und Aufklärer und gilt als Begründer der klassischen Nationalökonomie.



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✵ 5. Juni 1723 – 17. Juli 1790
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„Keine Kunst lernt eine Regierung schneller als die, Geld aus den Taschen der Leute zu ziehen.“

Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations, Book V

„Für wie selbstsüchtig man den Menschen auch halten mag, es gibt nachweislich einige Grundlagen seines Wesens, die dazu führen, dass er sich für das Schicksal anderer interessiert, deren Glück ihm notwendig erscheint, obwohl er nichts davon hat außer dem Vergnügen, es zu sehen.“

Adam Smith

Die Theorie der ethischen Gefühle

„Was man Zuneigung nennt, ist in Wirklichkeit nichts andres als Sympathie der Gewohnheit.“

Adam Smith

Theorie der moralischen Empfindungen

„Ein Mensch, der sich kein Eigenthum erwerben kann, hat kein anderes Interesse, als so viel zu essen und so wenig zu arbeiten, als möglich.“

Adam Smith

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
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
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)

„Es ist nicht die Wohltätigkeit des Metzgers, des Brauers oder des Bäckers, die uns unser Abendessen erwarten lässt, sondern dass sie nach ihrem eigenen Vorteil trachten.“

Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations, Book I

„Keine Gesellschaft kann gedeihen und glücklich sein, in der der weitaus größte Teil ihrer Mitglieder arm und elend ist.“

Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations, Book I

Adam Smith Zitate und Sprüche

„Es gibt keine Kunst, welche eine Regierung schneller von der andern lernt, als die, dem Volke Geld aus der Tasche zu locken.“

Adam Smith

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

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
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)

Über Geld , Über Kunst

„Für wie selbstsüchtig man den Menschen auch halten mag, es gibt nachweislich einige Grundlagen seines Wesens, die dazu führen, dass er sich für das Schicksal anderer interessiert, deren Glück ihm notwendig erscheint, obwohl er nichts davon hat außer dem Vergnügen, es zu sehen." - Die Theorie der ethischen Gefühle
"So eigensüchtig wir uns den Menschen auch denken mögen, so müssen wir doch zugeben, daß eine gewisse natürliche Stimmung seines Herzens ihn nöthige, an dem Schicksal seiner Brüder Theil zu nehmen, und ihr Glück als ein unumgängliches Erforderniß zu seinem eigenen Glück zu betrachten, sollt' er auch nichts anders davon haben, als das Vergnügen, es mit anzusehn.“

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
"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
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)

Stimmung , Gefühl , Herz , Denken

„Keine Kunst lernt eine Regierung schneller als die, Geld aus den Taschen der Leute zu ziehen." - The Wealth of Nations, Book V
"Es gibt keine Kunst, welche eine Regierung schneller von der andern lernt, als die, dem Volke Geld aus der Tasche zu locken“

Adam Smith

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
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
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)

Über Geld , Über Kunst

„Keine Gesellschaft kann gedeihen und glücklich sein, in der der weitaus größte Teil ihrer Mitglieder arm und elend ist. Es kann sicherlich eine Gesellschaft nicht blühend und glücklich sein, deren meiste Glieder arm und elend sind.“

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

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)
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)

„Es ist nicht die Wohltätigkeit des Metzgers, des Brauers oder des Bäckers, die uns unser Abendessen erwarten lässt, sondern dass sie nach ihrem eigenen Vorteil trachten." - The Wealth of Nations, Book I
"Nicht von dem Wohlwollen des Fleischers, Brauers oder Bäckers erwarten wir unsere Mahlzeit, sondern von ihrer Bedachtnahme auf ihr eigenes Interesse.“

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
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
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)

„Was man Zuneigung nennt, ist in Wirklichkeit nichts andres als Sympathie der Gewohnheit." - Theorie der moralischen Empfindungen
"Was man Zuneigung nennt, ist in Wirklichkeit nichts anderes als eingewurzelte, gewohnheitsmäßige Sympathie.“

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
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
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)

Wirklichkeit

„Jeder Mann lebt vom Austausch.“

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Über Männer

„Der Wert, den die Arbeiter hinzufügen.“

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Adam Smith: Zitate auf Englisch

“The poverty of the lower ranks of people in China far surpasses that of the most beggarly nations of Europe. In the neighbourhood of Canton many hundred, it is commonly said, many thousand families have no habitation on the land, but live constantly in little fishing boats upon the rivers and the canals. The subsistence which they find there is so scanty that they are eager to fish up the nastiest garbage thrown overboard from any European ship. Any carrion, the carcase of a dead dog or cat, for example, though half putrid and stinking, is as welcome to them as the most wholesome food to the people of other countries.”

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Quelle: (1776), Book I, Chapter VIII, p. 86.

“It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.”

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Quelle: (1776), Book IV, Chapter I, p. 471.

“The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it. He goes on to establish it completely and in all its parts, without any regard either to the great interests, or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it. He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, 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. If those two principles coincide and act in the same direction, the game of human society will go on easily and harmoniously, and is very likely to be happy and successful. If they are opposite or different, the game will go on miserably, and the society must be at all times in the highest degree of disorder.”

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Adam Smith buch Theorie der ethischen Gefühle

Section II, Chap. II.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part VI

“The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever.”

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Quelle: (1776), Book IV, Chapter VII, Part Second, p. 619.

“It cannot be very difficult to determine who have been the contrivers of this whole mercantile system; not the consumers, we may believe, whose interest has been entirely neglected; but the producers, whose interests has been so carefully attended to; and among this later class our merchants and manufactures have been by far the principal architects. In the mercantile regulations, which have been taken notice of in this chapter, the interest of our manufacturers has been most peculiarly attended to; and the interest, not so much of the consumers, as that of some other sets of producers, has been sacrificed to it.”

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Quelle: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book IV, Chapter VIII, p. 721.

“The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greatest part of skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.”

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Quelle: (1776), Book I, Chapter I, p. 7

“In every country it always is and must be the interest of the great body of the people to buy whatever they want of those who sell it cheapest. The proposition is so very manifest that it seems ridiculous to take any pains to prove it; nor could it ever have been called in question had not the interested sophistry of merchants and manufacturers confounded the common sense of mankind. Their interest is, in this respect, directly opposite to that of the great body of the people.”

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Quelle: (1776), Book IV, Chapter III, Part II, p. 531.

“III. Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.”

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Quelle: (1776), Book V, Chapter II Part II, p. 893.

“To give the monopoly of the home-market to the produce of domestic industry, in any particular art or manufacture, is in some measure to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, and must, in almost all cases, be either a useless or a hurtful regulation.”

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Quelle: (1776), Book IV, Chapter II, p. 489.

“The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.”

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Quelle: (1776), Book I, Chapter II, p. 17.

“Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times, frequently of a hundred times more labour than the greater part of those who work; yet the produce of the whole labour of the society is so great, that all are often abundantly supplied, and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniencies of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.”

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Introduction and Plan of the Work, p. 2.
(1776)

“In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to produce; and in the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for advancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and the propagation of the species.”

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Adam Smith buch Theorie der ethischen Gefühle

Section II, Chap. III.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part II

“In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.”

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Chap. VI.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part III

“Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.”

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Quelle: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, Article III, p. 874.

“In England, success in the profession of the law leads to some very great objects of ambition; and yet how few men, born to easy fortunes, have ever in this country been emminent in that profession?”

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Quelle: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, p. 824.

“The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes.”

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Introduction and Plan of the Work, p. 1.
(1776)

“Oatmeal indeed supplies the common people of Scotland with the greatest and best part of their food, which is in general much inferior to that of their neighbours of the same rank in England.”

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Quelle: (1776), Book I, Chapter VIII, p. 91 (Oatmeal in England makes for great horses, in Scotland Great Men).

“The trade of insurance gives great security to the fortunes of private people, and by dividing among a great many that loss which would ruin an individual, makes it fall light and easy upon the whole society.”

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Quelle: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, p. 821.

“To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.”

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Quelle: (1776), Book IV, Chapter V, p. 584.

“For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.”

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Quelle: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, Article II, p. 847.

“The administration of the great system of the universe, however, the care of the universal happiness of all rational and sensible beings, is the business of God and not of man. To man is allotted a much humbler department, but one much more suitable to the weakness of his powers, and to the narrowness of his comprehension; the care of his own happiness, of that of his family, his friends, his country: that he is occupied in contemplating the more sublime, can never be an excuse for his neglecting the more humble department.”

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Section II, Chap. III.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part VI

“No regulation of commerce can increase the quantity of industry in any society beyond what its capital can maintain. It can only divert a part of it into a direction into which it might not otherwise have gone; and it is by no means certain that this artificial direction is likely to be more advantageous to the society than that into which it would have gone of its own accord. Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in his view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society.”

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Quelle: (1776), Book IV, Chapter II, p. 486.

“Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.”

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Quelle: (1776), Book III, Chapter II, p. 426-427.

“China has been long one of the richest, that is, one of the most fertile, best cultivated, most industrious, and most populous countries in the world. It seems, however, to have been long stationary. Marco Polo, who visited it more than five hundred years ago, describes its cultivation, industry, and populousness, almost in the same terms in which they are described by travellers in the present times.”

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Quelle: (1776), Book I, Chapter VIII, p. 86.

“The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.”

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Quelle: (1776), Book I, Chapter VII, p. 69.

“I. The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities, that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.”

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Quelle: (1776), Book V, Chapter II, Part II, p. 892.

“The Hudson's Bay Company, before their misfortunes in the late war, had been much more fortunate than the Royal African Company.”

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Quelle: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, p. 806.

“Lotteries are a tax on ignorance.”

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“No fixed capital can yield any revenue but by means of a circulating capital.”

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Quelle: (1776), Book II, Chapter I, p. 311.

“A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more, otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.”

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Quelle: (1776), Book I, Chapter VIII, p. 81.

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