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" The lowest ordinary rate of profit must always be something more than what is sufficient to compensate the occasional losses to which every employment of stock is exposed. "
The Quarterly Journal of Economics - Page 116
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - 1809 - 372 pages
...from this, and partly from the difficulty of recovering the money. The lowest ordinary rate of profit must always be something more than what is sufficient...to compensate the occasional losses to which every employment of stock is exposed. It is this surplus only which is neat or clear profit. What is called...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 pages
...partly from the difficulty of recovering the money. The lowest ordinary rate of profit must nlways be something more than what is sufficient to compensate the occasional losses to which every employment of stock Í* exposed. It is this surplus only which is neat or clear profit. \VLat is called...
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The Philosophy of Trade: Or, Outlines of a Theory of Profits and Prices ...

Patrick James Stirling - 1846 - 416 pages
...the active employer of capital. Adam Smith has remarked, that " The lowest ordinary rate of profit must always be something more than what is sufficient...to compensate the occasional losses to which every employment of stock is exposed. It is this surplus only which is neat or clear profit. What is called...
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An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. A careful ...

Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...from this, and partly from the difficulty of recovering the money. The lowest ordinary rate of profit must always be something more than what is sufficient...to compensate the occasional losses to which every employment of stock is exposed. It is this surplus only which is nett or clear profit. What is called...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith - 1884 - 604 pages
...from this, and partly from die difficulty of recovering the money. The lowest ordinary rate of profit must always be something more than what is sufficient to compensate the occasional losses tn which every employment of slock is exposed. It is this surplus only which is neat or clear profit,...
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Select Chapters and Passages from the Wealth of Nations of Adam Smith, 1776

Adam Smith - 1894 - 526 pages
...it, but to the difficulty and danger- of evading the law. . . . The lowest ordinary rate of profit must always be something more than what is sufficient...to compensate the occasional losses to which every employment of stock is exposed. It is this surplus only which is neat or clear profit. What is called...
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History of Economic Thought..

Lewis Henry Haney - 1911 - 598 pages
...said to have really cost him." More specifically he says that the lowest ordinary rate of profit must be something more than what is sufficient to compensate the occasional losses to which the employment of stock is exposed.1 Elsewhere he so writes that it may be inferred that profits must...
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 34

Charles Franklin Dunbar, Frank William Taussig, Abbott Payson Usher, Alvin Harvey Hansen, William Leonard Crum, Edward Chamberlin, Arthur Eli Monroe - 1920 - 822 pages
...profit — an adequate compensation for " some additional risk " over that incurred upon idle capital.1 By all three writers, profits were treated as essentially...wages of superintendence, and compensation for risk; 3 but these also constitute a minimum profit which he treats as a part of necessary price: " The cost...
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 34

Charles Franklin Dunbar, Frank William Taussig, Abbott Payson Usher, Alvin Harvey Hansen, William Leonard Crum, Edward Chamberlin, Arthur Eli Monroe - 1920 - 800 pages
...profit — an adequate compensation for " some additional risk " over that incurred upon idle capital.1 By all three writers, profits were treated as essentially...losses to which every employer of stock is exposed." 2 And Mill's " minimum rate of profit," by including interest and insurance against risk, resembles...
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 34

Charles Franklin Dunbar, Frank William Taussig, Abbott Payson Usher, Alvin Harvey Hansen, William Leonard Crum, Edward Chamberlin, Arthur Eli Monroe - 1920 - 798 pages
...profit — an adequate compensation for " some additional risk " over that incurred upon idle capital.1 By all three writers, profits were treated as essentially...losses to which every employer of stock is exposed." 1 And Mill's " minimum rate of profit," by including interest and insurance against risk, resembles...
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