 MONEY is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce, but only the instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It is none of the wheels of trade : it is the oil which renders the motion of...  Putnam's Monthly - Seite 4961853Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles R. Lewis - 2000 - 166 Seiten
...The Business of Common Life, 30-64. The Difference of a Doubloon The Oil of Trade in Moby Dick "It is none of the wheels of trade: It is the oil which...renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy." -DAVID HUME, "OF MONEY" (309) "Such a clearer! such a sweetener! such a softener! such a delicious... | |
 | George P. Brockway - 2001 - 494 Seiten
...history, we cannot escape money. David Hume and many others have written that money is a convenience: "Tis the oil, which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy." But it is more than that, and different from that. It is not a convenience or a tool. A hammer is a... | |
 | Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell, Peter Mooslechner - 2003 - 498 Seiten
...the instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It is none of the wheels of trade: it is the oil which...renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy. The integration of euro banknotes and coins from 1 January 2002 marks the completion of monetary unification... | |
 | David Hume - 2003 - 376 Seiten
...the instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It is none of the wheels of trade: It is the oil which...renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy. If we consider any one kingdom by itself, it is evident, that the greater or less plenty of money is... | |
 | James C. W. Ahiakpor - 2003 - 278 Seiten
...the instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It is none of the wheels of trade: It is the oil which...renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy" (33). Hume recognizes the substitutability of credit or paper money for specie in transactions as well... | |
 | 布卢姆斯伯里出版公司 - 2003 - 2176 Seiten
...HttVMttMMf of I (ВО 2114-Ю) 'Money is not, property speaking, one of the subjects of commerce. . .it is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy/ юа^ Hume) Competitor Analysis: From Data to Insight by Liam Fahey Competitor Analysis (CA) has emerged... | |
 | Michael C. Lovell - 2004 - 636 Seiten
...instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It is not one of the wheels of trade: It is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy. If we consider any one kingdom by itself, it is evident, that the greater or less plenty of money is... | |
 | Ekkehard Felder - 2006 - 421 Seiten
...David Hume GELD im 18. Jahrhundert als ÖL, das die „Räder des Handels" antreibt: It [Geld — MH] is none of the wheels of trade: It is the oil which...renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy. (Hume 1752/1964: 309) Eben diese Kraftstoffkomponente finden wir auch heute noch in der Alltagssprache... | |
 | David Hume - 356 Seiten
...the instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It is none of the wheels of trade : It is the oil which...renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy. 2 If we consider any one kingdom by itself, it is evident, that the greater or less plenty of money... | |
 | David Hume - 356 Seiten
...the instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It is none of the wheels of trade : It is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy.2 If we consider any one kingdom by itself, it is evident, that the greater or less plenty of... | |
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