...prevailing opinion that the gains of one State are always at the expense of itc neighbors, he says: " In opposition to this narrow and malignant opinion,...commonly promotes the riches and commerce of all its neighbors; and that a State can scarcely carry its trade and industry very far, where all the surrounding...

...„chimere des speculateurs politiques".*) Weit nachhaltiger aber als seine Vorgänger hat Adam -) „That the increase of riches and commerce in any one nation, instead of hurting commonly promote the riches and commerce of all its neighhours". David Hume „Essays moral, political and literary"...

...pays ne peut gagner sans qu'un autre perde ». VOLTAIRE, Dictionnaire philosophique, article Patrie. "In opposition to this narrow and malignant opinion,...states are buried in ignorance, sloth, and barbarism. Were our narrow and malignant politics to meet with success, we should reduce all our neighbouring...

...lose their own foreign markets. 'The encrease of riches and commerce in any one nation', Hume argued, 'instead of hurting, commonly promotes the riches and commerce of all its neighbours.'88 In the new essay which he added soon after the clash with Tucker and Wallace, 'Of the...

...would reject such a "narrow and malignant opinion" and adopt the alternative view "that the encrease of riches and commerce in any one nation, instead...promotes the riches and commerce of all its neighbours." Open competition among nations would eradicate the causes of war, costly political bureaucracies, and...

...labour; and our passions are the only causes of labour. Of Commerce (1754) 1985:261. 22 The encrease of riches and commerce in any one nation, instead...the riches and commerce of all its neighbours; and. . . a state can scarcely carry its trade and industry very far, where all the surrounding states are...

...would not take place. 38 "I will venture to assert", wrote David Hume in the 1750s, "that the encrease of riches and commerce in any one nation, instead...states are buried in ignorance, sloth, and barbarism." 39 Hume's challenge to mercantilist thinking was put into a more analytical framework by Adam Smith...

...would not take place. 38 "I will venture to assert", wrote David Hume in the 1750s, "that the encrease of riches and commerce in any one nation, instead...surrounding states are buried in ignorance, sloth, and barbarism."39 Hume's challenge to mercantilist thinking was put into a more analytical framework by...

...former. ESSAY EIGHTEEN Of the jealousy of trade HAVING endeavoured to remove one species of ill-founded jealousy, which is so prevalent among commercial nations,...malignant opinion, I will venture to assert, that the encrease of riches and commerce in any one nation, instead of hurting, commonly promotes the riches...

...85. Hume's optimism here is remarkably strong, however. "I will venture to assert, that the encrease of riches and commerce in any one nation, instead...commonly promotes the riches and commerce of all its neighbors." Nature itself has secured the '"mutual intercourse" of diverse nations ("Of the Jealousy...