Adam Smith — "To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers…"

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.
Adam Smith — Adam Smith Early Modern · Wealth of Nations, capitalism

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The Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter VII, Part III

Date: 1776

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