The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
EMPIRE IN THE EAST^135 Small wonder that the life of science and speculation decayed. A privileged few were eventually exempted ...
136 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS weak country. The crypto-Jewish scientists, mathematicians, and physicians of yesteryear w ...
For Love of Gain ... We Amsterdammers journey... Wherever profit leads us, to every sea and shore, For love of gain the wide wor ...
(^138) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS cess reflected an attitude toward work and trade best exemplified by the fable of the T ...
FOR LOVE OF GAIN^139 were dismissed as a bunch of bums (tas de gueux). Spain would spare neither money nor men to show them who ...
(^140) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Jews, Calvinists—all left. Also Catholics, who understood that even the faithful had no ...
FOR LOVE OF GAIN^141 They were persuaded to merge. Like the Confederation: in union, strength. So was born in 1602 the Vereenigd ...
SOUTH EAST ASIA AND THE INDONESIAN ARCHIPELAGO For the Dutch, the great source of treasure was the "Spice Islands"—the Moluccas ...
FOR LOVE OF GAIN^143 sumption. A free, efficient market would have reduced profit margins per unit of merchandise, even while it ...
(^144) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS chants greedy of gain." To which Antonio van Diemen, writing from the Indies, made repl ...
FOR LOVE OF GAIN^145 with a modicum of survivor instinct cared to stay long in these pesti lential lands whence few returned. T ...
146 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS florins a month, could take home a fortune of 10 million florins; a ju nior merchant was ...
FOR LOVE OF GAIN^147 lands to Amboina, destroying their trees beforehand, the better to control them and prevent them from selli ...
148 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS but it continued to pay generous dividends, even borrowing the sums required. A very bad s ...
FOR LOVE OF GAIN^149 that Asians could beat Europeans, that the Europeans were not invin cible. Japan's surrender returned the ...
Golconda The British are like the strong rapid current of water, they are persevering, energetic, and irresistible in their cour ...
GOLCONDA^151 headed for Lisbon.* She was bigger than any vessel the English had ever seen: 165 feet long, 47 feet of beam, 1,600 ...
(^152) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS The English learned another lesson from the "Mother of God." When, some years later, a ...
GOLCONDA^153 to the English for gifts (bribes) and stipends, shipped export goods in their vessels, and in some instances even i ...
(^154) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS ordinary merchants. Arbitrary levies turned the intruders to thoughts of violence. One ...
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