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Entrepreneurs and Democracy: A Political Theory of Corporate Governance
by Pierre-Yves Gomez, Harry Korine - 2008
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own intereft. We address ourselves,. not to their humanity, but...chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. Even a beggar does not depend upon it entirely. The charity of well-disposed people,...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 452 pages
...we stand in need of. 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...chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. Even a beggar does not depend upon it entirely. The charity of well-disposed people,...
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Elements of Political Economy

Samuel Phillips Newman - Business & Economics - 1835 - 334 pages
...we stand in need of. It is not from the benevolence of the . butcher, the baker, or the brewer, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their...of our own necessities, but of their advantages." This is a simple and natural explanation of barter, if we JOQ^ at a community in its advanced state,...
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De gids: nieuwe vaderlandsche letteroefeningen, Volume 145

Printing - 1837 - 738 pages
...that we expect our dinner, but from their regard of their own interest. We address ourselves, not lo their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk...them of our own necessities but of their advantages', dan mag dat nu vrij vanzelfsprekend klinken. Maar omstreeks 1700 sprak men nog liever niet over zulke...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, ur the luktr tbM w* expect our dinner, but from their теgard to their own interest We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their selfJove, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar...
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The Living Age, Volume 317

Literature - 1923 - 850 pages
...Listen to the old cynic. ' 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.' How does the conception of a society in which the State is limited to the triple function of warding...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 95

American essays - 1905 - 880 pages
...sagely remarked that "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...but to their self-love, and never talk to them of 1 Human Work. By CHARLOTTE PERRINS GILMAN. New York : McClure, Phillips & Co. 1904. our own necessities,...
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The Practitioner, Volume 10

Family medicine - 1873 - 446 pages
...self-interest. " It is not," he says, " from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." 1 He then proceeds to show that the division of labour is limited by the extent of the market; from...
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An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. A careful ...

Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...we stand in need of. 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...chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. Even a beggar does not depend upon it entirely. The charity of well-disposed people,...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - Economics - 1880 - 486 pages
...we stand in need of. 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. We address ourselves, not to our humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of their own necessities but of their...
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