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Adam Smith foi um filósofo e economista britânico nascido na Escócia. Teve como cenário para a sua vida o atribulado Século das Luzes, o século XVIII.É o pai da economia moderna, e é considerado o mais importante teórico do liberalismo econômico. Autor de Uma investigação sobre a natureza e a causa da riqueza das nações, a sua obra mais conhecida, e que continua sendo usada como referência para gerações de economistas, na qual procurou demonstrar que a riqueza das nações resultava da atuação de indivíduos que, movidos inclusive pelo seu próprio interesse , promoviam o crescimento econômico e a inovação tecnológica.

Adam Smith ilustrou bem seu pensamento ao afirmar "não é da benevolência do padeiro, do açougueiro ou do cervejeiro que eu espero que saia o meu jantar, mas sim do empenho deles em promover seu auto-interesse". Assim acreditava que a iniciativa privada deveria agir livremente, com pouca ou nenhuma intervenção governamental, sendo defensor do free banking . A competição livre entre os diversos fornecedores levaria não só à queda do preço das mercadorias, mas também a constantes inovações tecnológicas, no afã de baratear o custo de produção e vencer os competidores.

Ele analisou a divisão do trabalho como um fator evolucionário poderoso a propulsionar a economia. Uma frase de Adam Smith se tornou famosa: "Assim, o mercador ou comerciante, movido apenas pelo seu próprio interesse , é levado por uma "mão invisível" a promover algo que nunca fez parte do interesse dele: o bem-estar da sociedade." Como resultado da atuação dessa "mão invisível", o preço das mercadorias deveria descer e os salários deveriam subir. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. Junho 1723 – 17. Julho 1790
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Adam Smith Frases famosas

“O que pode ser acrescentado à felicidade do homem que goza de boa saúde, não tem dívidas e está com a consciência limpa?”

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
The theory of moral sentiments: To which is added a dissertation on the origin of languages - Página 62 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=67kIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&source=bl&ots=0-p7klr7xK&sig=3Jz1iKFE_acmDiN6fltb6fKDWQE&hl=pt-BR&sa=X&ei=aaEiUIafA4TO9AS17IGYAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&f=false, Adam Smith - Printed for A. Millar, A. Kincaid and J. Bell in Edinburgh; and sold by T. Cadell, 1767 - 478 páginas

“A riqueza de uma nação se mede pela riqueza do povo e não pela riqueza dos príncipes.”

Adam Smith

Uma Investigação Sobre a Natureza e a Causa da Riqueza das Nações

“Não é pelo dinheiro em si que os homens o desejam; é pelo que podem comprar com ele.”

Adam Smith

Uma Investigação Sobre a Natureza e a Causa da Riqueza das Nações

“É injusto que toda a sociedade contribua para custear uma despesa cujo benefício vai a apenas uma parte dessa sociedade.”

Adam Smith

Uma Investigação Sobre a Natureza e a Causa da Riqueza das Nações

Citações de homens de Adam Smith

“Um homem enriquece empregando uma multidão de operários e torna-se pobre mantendo uma multidão de serviçais.”

Adam Smith

“A ambição universal dos homens é viver colhendo o que nunca plantaram.”

Adam Smith

citado em "O Poder de mau humor: uma antologia de citações venenosas sobre política, dinheiro e sucesso", Ruy Castro - Companhia das Letras, 1993, ISBN 8571643148, 9788571643147 - 204 páginas
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Variante: A ambição universal do homem é colher o que nunca plantou.

“A humanidade é virtude da mulher; a generosidade é virtude do homem.”

Adam Smith livro Teoria dos Sentimentos Morais

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man
The theory of moral sentiments: To which is added a dissertation on the origin of languages - Página 285 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=-V4AAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA285, Adam Smith - Printed for A. Millar, A. Kincaid and J. Bell in Edinburgh; and sold by T. Cadell, 1767 - 478 páginas

Citações de idade de Adam Smith

“Não é da benevolência do açougueiro, do cervejeiro e do padeiro que esperamos o nosso jantar, mas da consideração que ele têm pelos próprios interesses. Apelamos não à humanidade, mas ao amor-próprio, e nunca falamos de nossas necessidades, mas das vantagens que eles podem obter.”

Adam Smith

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.
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With a Life of the Author. Also, a View of the Doctrine of Smith Compared with that of the French Economists; with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, Volume 1, Página 20 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xTpFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA20, Adam Smith - Creech, 1806.
Uma Investigação Sobre a Natureza e a Causa da Riqueza das Nações

“Proibir um grande povo, porém, de fazer tudo o que pode com cada parte de sua produção ou de empregar seu capital e indústria do modo que julgar mais vantajoso para si mesmo é uma violação manifesta dos mais sagrados direitos da humanidade.”

Adam Smith

Uma Investigação Sobre a Natureza e a Causa da Riqueza das Nações

“Boas estradas, canais e rios navegáveis, diminuindo a despesa de transporte, colocam as regiões remotas de um país em um nível mais próximo do daquelas nas vizinhanças das cidades. Por causa disso, representam as maiores de todas as melhorias.”

Adam Smith

Uma Investigação Sobre a Natureza e a Causa da Riqueza das Nações

Adam Smith frases e citações

“A ciência é o grande antídoto contra o veneno do entusiasmo e da superstição”

Adam Smith

Adam Smith, conforme relatado por Singh, Simon - Big Bang - Editora Record - Rio de Janeiro / São Paulo - 2006. ISBN: 85-01-07213-3 (pág. 459)
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Ciência

“Naqueles governos corruptos, em que há pelo menos suspeita geral de muita despesa desnecessária e grande malversação da renda pública, as leis que proíbem o contrabando são muito pouco respeitadas.”

Adam Smith

Uma Investigação Sobre a Natureza e a Causa da Riqueza das Nações

De leis

“Pessoas do mesmo ofício raramente se encontram, mesmo que em alegria ou diversão, mas se tiver lugar, a conversa acaba na conspiração contra o público, ou em qualquer artifício para fazer subir os preços.”

Adam Smith

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
An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. With notes, and an additional vol., by D. Buchanan - Volume 1, Página 215 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=l2EUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA215, Adam Smith, David Buchanan - 1814
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De pessoas , Alegria

“Aqueles que mais cedo estão em condição de fruir sua compensação, mais cedo terão gosto pelo trabalho.”

Adam Smith

Uma Investigação Sobre a Natureza e a Causa da Riqueza das Nações

“Todo indivíduo está continuamente esforçando-se para achar o emprego mais vantajoso para o capital que possa comandar. É sua própria vantagem, de fato, e não a da sociedade, que ele tem em vista. Mas o estudo de sua própria vantagem, naturalmente, ou melhor, necessariamente, leva-o a preferir aquele emprego que é mais vantajoso para a sociedade.”

Adam Smith

Uma Investigação Sobre a Natureza e a Causa da Riqueza das Nações

Estude

“O único uso do dinheiro é circular bens consumíveis.”

Adam Smith

Uma Investigação Sobre a Natureza e a Causa da Riqueza das Nações

De dinheiro

“O trabalho é moeda corrente.”

Adam Smith
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“a competição dos pobres tira a recompensa dos ricos.”

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“O valor que os trabalhadores acrescentam”

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“Pouco mais é necessário para erguer um Estado, da mais primitiva barbárie até o mais alto grau de opulência, além de paz, de baixos impostos e de boa administração da justiça: todo o resto corre por conta do curso natural das coisas.”

Adam Smith

Uma Investigação Sobre a Natureza e a Causa da Riqueza das Nações

De justiça , De paz

Adam Smith: Frases em inglês

“The poverty of the lower ranks of people in China far surpasses that of the most beggarly nations of Europe. In the neighbourhood of Canton many hundred, it is commonly said, many thousand families have no habitation on the land, but live constantly in little fishing boats upon the rivers and the canals. The subsistence which they find there is so scanty that they are eager to fish up the nastiest garbage thrown overboard from any European ship. Any carrion, the carcase of a dead dog or cat, for example, though half putrid and stinking, is as welcome to them as the most wholesome food to the people of other countries.”

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Fonte: (1776), Book I, Chapter VIII, p. 86.

“It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.”

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Fonte: (1776), Book IV, Chapter I, p. 471.

“The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it. He goes on to establish it completely and in all its parts, without any regard either to the great interests, or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it. He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it. If those two principles coincide and act in the same direction, the game of human society will go on easily and harmoniously, and is very likely to be happy and successful. If they are opposite or different, the game will go on miserably, and the society must be at all times in the highest degree of disorder.”

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Adam Smith livro Teoria dos Sentimentos Morais

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

“The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever.”

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Fonte: (1776), Book IV, Chapter VII, Part Second, p. 619.

“It cannot be very difficult to determine who have been the contrivers of this whole mercantile system; not the consumers, we may believe, whose interest has been entirely neglected; but the producers, whose interests has been so carefully attended to; and among this later class our merchants and manufactures have been by far the principal architects. In the mercantile regulations, which have been taken notice of in this chapter, the interest of our manufacturers has been most peculiarly attended to; and the interest, not so much of the consumers, as that of some other sets of producers, has been sacrificed to it.”

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Fonte: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book IV, Chapter VIII, p. 721.

“The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greatest part of skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.”

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Fonte: (1776), Book I, Chapter I, p. 7

“In every country it always is and must be the interest of the great body of the people to buy whatever they want of those who sell it cheapest. The proposition is so very manifest that it seems ridiculous to take any pains to prove it; nor could it ever have been called in question had not the interested sophistry of merchants and manufacturers confounded the common sense of mankind. Their interest is, in this respect, directly opposite to that of the great body of the people.”

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Fonte: (1776), Book IV, Chapter III, Part II, p. 531.

“III. Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.”

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Fonte: (1776), Book V, Chapter II Part II, p. 893.

“To give the monopoly of the home-market to the produce of domestic industry, in any particular art or manufacture, is in some measure to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, and must, in almost all cases, be either a useless or a hurtful regulation.”

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Fonte: (1776), Book IV, Chapter II, p. 489.

“The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.”

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Fonte: (1776), Book I, Chapter II, p. 17.

“Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times, frequently of a hundred times more labour than the greater part of those who work; yet the produce of the whole labour of the society is so great, that all are often abundantly supplied, and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniencies of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.”

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Introduction and Plan of the Work, p. 2.
(1776)

“In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to produce; and in the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for advancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and the propagation of the species.”

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Adam Smith livro Teoria dos Sentimentos Morais

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

“In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.”

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Adam Smith livro Teoria dos Sentimentos Morais

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

“Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.”

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Fonte: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, Article III, p. 874.

“In England, success in the profession of the law leads to some very great objects of ambition; and yet how few men, born to easy fortunes, have ever in this country been emminent in that profession?”

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Fonte: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, p. 824.

“The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes.”

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Introduction and Plan of the Work, p. 1.
(1776)

“Oatmeal indeed supplies the common people of Scotland with the greatest and best part of their food, which is in general much inferior to that of their neighbours of the same rank in England.”

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Fonte: (1776), Book I, Chapter VIII, p. 91 (Oatmeal in England makes for great horses, in Scotland Great Men).

“The trade of insurance gives great security to the fortunes of private people, and by dividing among a great many that loss which would ruin an individual, makes it fall light and easy upon the whole society.”

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Fonte: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, p. 821.

“To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.”

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Fonte: (1776), Book IV, Chapter V, p. 584.

“For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.”

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Fonte: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, Article II, p. 847.

“The administration of the great system of the universe, however, the care of the universal happiness of all rational and sensible beings, is the business of God and not of man. To man is allotted a much humbler department, but one much more suitable to the weakness of his powers, and to the narrowness of his comprehension; the care of his own happiness, of that of his family, his friends, his country: that he is occupied in contemplating the more sublime, can never be an excuse for his neglecting the more humble department.”

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Adam Smith livro Teoria dos Sentimentos Morais

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

“No regulation of commerce can increase the quantity of industry in any society beyond what its capital can maintain. It can only divert a part of it into a direction into which it might not otherwise have gone; and it is by no means certain that this artificial direction is likely to be more advantageous to the society than that into which it would have gone of its own accord. Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in his view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society.”

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Fonte: (1776), Book IV, Chapter II, p. 486.

“Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.”

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Fonte: (1776), Book III, Chapter II, p. 426-427.

“China has been long one of the richest, that is, one of the most fertile, best cultivated, most industrious, and most populous countries in the world. It seems, however, to have been long stationary. Marco Polo, who visited it more than five hundred years ago, describes its cultivation, industry, and populousness, almost in the same terms in which they are described by travellers in the present times.”

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Fonte: (1776), Book I, Chapter VIII, p. 86.

“The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.”

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Fonte: (1776), Book I, Chapter VII, p. 69.

“I. The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities, that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.”

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Fonte: (1776), Book V, Chapter II, Part II, p. 892.

“The Hudson's Bay Company, before their misfortunes in the late war, had been much more fortunate than the Royal African Company.”

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Fonte: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, p. 806.

“Lotteries are a tax on ignorance.”

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“No fixed capital can yield any revenue but by means of a circulating capital.”

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Fonte: (1776), Book II, Chapter I, p. 311.

“A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more, otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.”

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Fonte: (1776), Book I, Chapter VIII, p. 81.