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Contents : Citat af Adam Smith Det f lgende citat stammer fra Adam Smiths bog An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations fra 1776. Det er et afsnit fra bog 4 om Systems of Political Economy. Bogen ndes hos mange boghandlere men kan ogs ndes p internettet: a a http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca:80/ econ/ugcm/3ll3/smith/wealth/index.html But the annual revenue of every society is always precisely equal to the exchangeable value of the whole annual produce of its industry or rather is precisely the same thing with that exchangeable value. As every individual therefore endeavours as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestic industry and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally indeed neither intends to promote the public interest nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value he intends only his own gain and he is in this as in many other cases led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more e ectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who a ected to trade for the public good. It is an a ectation indeed not very common among merchants and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it. konomi 1 Mikro F00

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