| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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