The Wealth Of Nations, Book IV Chapter VIII, p. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies, much less to render them necessary. …AND THE DISTORTION OF TRADE People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices…. The Wealth Of Nations, Book IV Chapter VIII, v.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The Wealth Of Nations, Book II, Chapter II, p.329, para. ON COMPETITION… In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so. The Wealth Of Nations, Book IV, Chapter II, p. Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation of all foreign wines, merely to encourage the making of claret and burgundy in Scotland? …AND TRADE SPECIALISATION By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hotwalls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries. The Wealth Of Nations, Book IV Chapter II, pp.

It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. The Wealth Of Nations, Book I, Chapter I, p. ON THE DIVISION OF LABOUR… It is the great multiplication of the productions of all the different arts, in consequence of the division of labour, which occasions, in a well-governed society, that universal opulence which extends itself to the lowest ranks of the people.

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