Frases de Adam Smith
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Adam Smith fue un economista y filósofo escocés, uno de los mayores exponentes de la economía clásica.

Adam Smith basaba su ideario en el sentido común. Frente al escepticismo, defendía el acceso cotidiano e inmediato a un mundo exterior independiente de la conciencia. Smith creía que el fundamento de la acción moral no se basa en normas ni en ideas nacionales, sino en sentimientos universales, comunes y propios de todos los seres humanos.

En 1776, publicó La riqueza de las naciones, sosteniendo que la riqueza procede del trabajo de la nación. El libro fue esencialmente un estudio acerca del proceso de creación y acumulación de la riqueza, temas ya abordados por los mercantilistas y fisiócratas, pero sin el carácter científico de la obra de Smith. Gracias a este trabajo, que fue el primer estudio completo y sistemático del tema, Smith se conoce como el padre de la economía.

✵ 5. junio 1723 – 17. julio 1790
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“No es por la benevolencia del carnicero, del cervecero y del panadero que podemos contar con nuestra cena, sino por su propio interés.”

Fuente: Citado en Amate Pou, Jordi.Paseando por una parte de la Historia: Antología de citas. Editorial Caligrama, 2017. ISBN 9788417321871. p. 43.
Fuente: La riqueza de las naciones

“No puede haber una sociedad floreciente y feliz cuando la mayor parte de sus miembros son pobres y desdichados.”

Fuente: Smith, Adam.La riqueza de las naciones, Libro I, Capítulo 8: De los salarios del trabajo, página 94.
Fuente: La riqueza de las naciones.

“En realidad, la atracción o el afecto no son más que simpatía de la costumbre.”

Fuente: Citado en Amate Pou, Jordi.Paseando por una parte de la Historia: Antología de citas. Editorial Caligrama, 2017. ISBN 9788417321871. p. 42.

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“Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government”

Fuente: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, p. 862.
Contexto: Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

“Europeans rendered an event, which ought to have been beneficial to all, ruinous and destructive to”

Fuente: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book IV, Chapter I, p. 481.
Contexto: The commodities of Europe were almost all new to America, and many of those of America were new to Europe. A new set of exchanges, therefore, began.. and which should naturally have proved as advantageous to the new, as it certainly did to the old continent. The savage injustice of the Europeans rendered an event, which ought to have been beneficial to all, ruinous and destructive to several of those unfortunate countries.

“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”

Adam Smith libro The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Section II, Chap. III.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part II

“It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.”

Fuente: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book V, Chapter II, Part II, Article I, p. 911.
Contexto: The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess. A tax upon house-rents, therefore, would in general fall heaviest upon the rich; and in this sort of inequality there would not, perhaps, be anything very unreasonable. It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

Fuente: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter X, Part II, p. 152.
Contexto: People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty or justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary.

“Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.”

Fuente: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part II, p. 770.
Fuente: The Wealth of Nations

“Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.”

Fuente: (1776), Book I, Chapter II, p. 14.
Fuente: The Wealth of Nations

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker”

Fuente: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter II, p. 19.
Fuente: The Wealth of Nations, Books 1-3
Contexto: But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and shew them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them. Whoever offers to another a bargain of any kind, proposes to do this. Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want, is the meaning of every such offer; and it is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater part of those good offices which we stand in need of. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

“It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver.”

Fuente: (1776), Book III, Chapter IV, p. 420.

“The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.”

Chapter X, Part I http://books.google.com/books?id=QItKAAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+world+neither+ever+saw+nor+ever+will+see+a+perfectly+fair+lottery%22&pg=PA76#v=onepage.
(1776), Book I

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