Representative Selections: With Introduction, Bibliography, and NotesAmerican Book Company, 1936 - 544 pages |
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Page lxxiii
... trade led him to embrace reservedly the principle of laissez faire , rather than that free trade , an economic concept , was but a fragment of a larger dogma , namely , that government should be characterized by its passivity ...
... trade led him to embrace reservedly the principle of laissez faire , rather than that free trade , an economic concept , was but a fragment of a larger dogma , namely , that government should be characterized by its passivity ...
Page lxxvii
... trade no less than agrarianism characterized physiocracy . Although Franklin indicated his antagonism toward govern- mental restraint of trade , internal and among nations , in his antipathy toward British mercantilism , it was not ...
... trade no less than agrarianism characterized physiocracy . Although Franklin indicated his antagonism toward govern- mental restraint of trade , internal and among nations , in his antipathy toward British mercantilism , it was not ...
Page lxxix
... Trade take its own Course , find its own Channels , and regu- late its own Proportions , etc. ' " 236 Restraint of manufactures " deprive [ s ] us of the Advantage God & Nature seem to have in- tended us .... So selfish is the human ...
... Trade take its own Course , find its own Channels , and regu- late its own Proportions , etc. ' " 236 Restraint of manufactures " deprive [ s ] us of the Advantage God & Nature seem to have in- tended us .... So selfish is the human ...
Contents
The Age of Enlightenment | xiii |
Franklins Theories of Education | xxxii |
Franklins Literary Theory and Practice | xlvi |
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