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Authors: P.J. O'Rourke
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War, as an Economic Stimulus without Which We Would Be Better Off
In the midst of the most destructive foreign war, ⦠the greater part of manufactures may frequently flourish greatly; and, on the contrary, they may decline on the return of the peace. They may flourish amidst the ruin of their country, and begin to decay upon the return of its prosperity.
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Wealth
, book 4
75
War, Public Fondness for
In great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them, scarce any inconveniency from the war; but enjoy, at their ease, the amusement of reading in the newspapers the exploits of their own fleets and armies. To them this amusement compensates the small difference between the taxes which they pay on account of the war, and those which they had been accustomed to pay in time of peace. They are commonly dissatisfied with the return of peace, which puts an end to their amusement.
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Wealth
, book 5
76
War, Smith's Plan for Curtailment of
Were the expence of war to be defrayed always by a revenue raised within the year, ⦠wars would in general be more speedily concluded, and less wantonly undertaken.
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Wealth
, book 5
77
Wives
The fair-sex, who have commonly much more tenderness than ours, have seldom so much generosity.
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Moral Sentiments
, part 4
78
CAS | Correspondence of Adam Smith |
DS | Stewart, Dugald. |
EPS | Essays on Philosophical Subjects. |
ISR | Ross, Ian Simpson. The Life of Adam Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. |
LJ | Lectures on Jurisprudence |
Rae | Rae, John. |
TMS | The Theory of Moral Sentiments |
TRTS | Hayek, Friedrich A. von. |
West | West, E.G. |
W/L | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations |
W/ML | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations |
Chapter 1
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2. W/ML 90
3. DS 52
4. TMS 226
5. W/L 782
6. W/ML lix
Chapter 2
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2. W/L 124
3. TMS 28
4. West 111
5. Rae 269
6. W/ML 214
7. W/ML 552
8. W/ML 467
9. CAS 387
10. W/ML 148
11. W/L 388
12. W/ML xliii
Chapter 3
1. W/L 471
2. W/ML 584
3. EPS 105
4. Ibid.
5. TMS 82
6. TMS 9
7. TMS 16
8. TMS 9
9. TMS 106
10. TMS 304
11. TMS 137
12. Ibid.
13. TMS 247
14. TMS 86
15. Ibid.
16. TMS 142
17. TMS 241
18. TMS 25
19. TMS 184
20. TMS 118
21. TMS 25
22. TMS 219
23. TMS 272
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25. TMS 77
26. TMS 292
Chapter 4
1. W/ML 15
2. Ibid.
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4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
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7. W/L 14
8. Rae 286
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10. W/ML 47
11. W/ML 36â7
12. W/ML 39
13. W/ML 47
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16. W/ML 61
17. Ibid.
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20. W/ML 113
21. W/ML 287
22. W/ML 288
23. W/L 570
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25. W/ML 274
26. W/ML 63
27. Ibid.
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30. W/ML 279
31. W/ML 287
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33. W/ML 188
34. TMS 184â5
35. TMS 57
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Chapter 5
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3. LJ/352
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6. W/ML 349
7. W/ML 335â6
8. W/ML 110
9. W/ML 359
10. W/ML 353
11. Ibid.
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13. W/ML 314
14. Ibid.
15. W/ML 349
16. Ibid.
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18. W/ML 345
19. LJ 518
20. W/ML 355â6
21. W/ML 353
22. W/ML 552
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24. W/ML 341
25. W/ML 343
26. Ibid.
27. W/ML 345
28. Ibid.
Chapter 6
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4. W/ML 360
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6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
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9. W/ML 381
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11. W/ML 19
12. W/ML 320
13. W/ML 306
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16. Ibid.
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20. TRTS 55
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25. W/ML 309
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
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30. Ibid
31. Ibid.
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33. Ibid.
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39. LJ 570
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41. W/L 19
Chapter 7
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2. TMS 57
3. W/ML 413
4. Ibid.
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6. W/ML 414
7. W/ML 443
8. W/ML 31
9. Alexander Carlyle,
Anecdotes and Characters of Our Times,
quoted in Arthur Herman,
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
(New York: Crown, 2001), 122.
10. W/ML 415
11. W/ML 416
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
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15. Jane Austen,
Pride and Prejudice,
Chapter 13.
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17. Ibid.
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20. W/ML 427
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
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25. W/ML 440
26. W/ML 430
27. Ibid.
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Chapter 8
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20. W/ML 409
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Chapter 9
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8. TMS 185
9. TMS 232
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. TMS 233â4
13. TMS 187
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16. David Hume to the Abbé André Morellet, London, July 10, 1769, in
The Letters of David Hume,
vol. 2,
1766â1776,
ed. J. Y. T. Greig (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1932), 205. Morellet was a philosopher and a friend of Voltaire.
Chapter 10
1. V. I. Lenin, 'Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism,' quoted in Thomas Sowell,
Marxism: Philosophy and Economics
(New York: Morrow, 1985), 213.
2. V. I. Lenin,
Imperialism
, International Publishers, 1939, p. 13, quoted by Thomas Sowell, ibid.
3. David Hume, 'The Sceptic', in
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
(Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1987), 169.
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5. CAS 383
6. CAS 380â1
7. CAS 384
8. CAS 383
9. W/ML 636
10. W/ML 556
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16. Ibid.
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19. CAS 381
20. W/ML 672
21. W/ML 666
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. CAS 382
25. W/ML 1013
26. CAS 382
27. Ibid.
28. W/ML 675
29. W/ML 1028
30. Ibid.
Chapter 11
1. TMS 291
2. Ibid.
3. W/ML 633
4. W/ML 858
5. W/ML 774
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7. W/ML 771
8. W/ML 766
9. Ibid.
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11. W/ML 767
12. W/ML 768
13. Ibid.
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33. Ibid.
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41. In this section of
Wealth,
Smith includes a lengthy quotation from David Hume,
The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688,
vol. 4 (London: T. Caddell, 1773), 30â31. In his own footnote, Smith says that the 1773 edition 'differs verbally both from earlier and from later editions'.
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43. W/ML 867
44. W/ML 852
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid.
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49. W/ML 888
50. Ibid.
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53. W/ML 929
54. W/ML 914
55. Ibid.
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58. W/ML 919
59. W/ML 934
60. Ibid
61. Ibid.
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63. W/ML 958
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65. W/ML 278
66. W/ML 185
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79. Ibid.