“In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.”

Book II, Chapter I, On the Progress of Wealth, Section IV, p. 349 ( See also; Says Law)
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)

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