Select Chapters and Passages from the Wealth of Nations of Adam Smith, 1776Macmillan and Company, 1894 - 285 páginas |
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... Rent of Land PART I. Of the Produce of Land which always affords Rent · 20 2223 24 1 8 2 3 £ 3 66 99 100 IIO 128 N • 131 1 The original table of contents is prefixed to indicate the relation of the selected chapters and passages to the ...
... Rent of Land PART I. Of the Produce of Land which always affords Rent · 20 2223 24 1 8 2 3 £ 3 66 99 100 IIO 128 N • 131 1 The original table of contents is prefixed to indicate the relation of the selected chapters and passages to the ...
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... Rent of Land 66 99 100 · IIO 128 x PART I. Of the Produce of Land which always affords Rent · 131 1 The original table of contents is prefixed to indicate the relation of the selected chapters and passages to the whole treatise ...
... Rent of Land 66 99 100 · IIO 128 x PART I. Of the Produce of Land which always affords Rent · 131 1 The original table of contents is prefixed to indicate the relation of the selected chapters and passages to the whole treatise ...
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... Rent . ] [ PART III . Of the Variations in the Proportion between the respective Values of that sort of Produce which always affords Rent , and of that which sometimes does , and sometimes does not , afford Rent . ] [ Digression ...
... Rent . ] [ PART III . Of the Variations in the Proportion between the respective Values of that sort of Produce which always affords Rent , and of that which sometimes does , and sometimes does not , afford Rent . ] [ Digression ...
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... Rent ; upon the Rent of Land . 262 Taxes which are proportioned not to the Rent , but to the Produce of Land 266 Taxes upon Rent of Houses 267 • 271 • 274 ARTICLE II . Taxes upon Profit , or upon the Rev- enue arising from Stock . Taxes ...
... Rent ; upon the Rent of Land . 262 Taxes which are proportioned not to the Rent , but to the Produce of Land 266 Taxes upon Rent of Houses 267 • 271 • 274 ARTICLE II . Taxes upon Profit , or upon the Rev- enue arising from Stock . Taxes ...
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... rent , if it is intended that this rent should always be of the same value , it is of importance to the family in whose favour it is reserved , that it should not consist in a particular sum of money . Its value would in this case be ...
... rent , if it is intended that this rent should always be of the same value , it is of importance to the family in whose favour it is reserved , that it should not consist in a particular sum of money . Its value would in this case be ...
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ADAM SMITH advantages afford altogether annual produce artificers and manufacturers augment cattle circulating capital commodities commonly competition consumed consumption corporation laws cultivation dealers declension different employments division of labour effectual demand endeavours equal quantities exchange expense farmer foreign trade frequently George III gold and silver high or low improvement increase industry interest justices of peace Kelp Kirkcaldy labour and stock land and labour landlord less maintain maintenance manner masters ment merchants metals money price nations natural price necessarily necessary neighbourhood never obliged occasion ordinary profits ordinary rate paid parish particular poor pounds price of labour produce of land productive labour profits of stock proportion purchase quantity of labour raise rate of profit regulate rent of land revenue rude produce Scotland seldom sell society sometimes sort Spanish West Indies subsistence sufficient surplus tion town wages and profit wages of labour wealth whole workmen
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Página xi - It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Página 48 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Página viii - ... without the assistance and co-operation of many thousands, the very meanest person in a civilized country could not be provided, even according to, what we very falsely imagine, the easy and simple manner in which he is commonly accommodated.
Página 55 - People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Página 1 - Each animal is still obliged to support and defend itself, separately and independently, and derives no sort of advantage from that variety of talents with which nature has distinguished its fellows. Among men, on the contrary, the most dissimilar geniuses are of use to one another; the different produces of their respective talents, by the general disposition to truck, barter, and exchange, being brought, as it were, into a common stock, where every man may purchase whatever part of the produce...
Página x - But man has almost constant occasion for the help of 'his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.
Página 11 - the word Value has two different meanings, and sometimes expresses the utility of some particular object, and sometimes the power of purchasing other goods which the possession of that object conveys. The one may be called value in use; the other value in exchange.
Página ix - Compared, indeed, with the more extravagant luxury of the great, his accommodation must no doubt appear extremely simple and easy; and yet it may be true, perhaps, that the accommodation of an European prince does not always so much exceed that of an industrious and frugal peasant, as the accommodation of the latter exceeds that of many an African king, the absolute master of the lives and liberties of ten thousand naked savages.
Página 45 - If in the same neighbourhood, there was any employment evidently either more or less advantageous than the rest, so many people would crowd into it in the one case, and so many would desert it in the other, that its advantages would soon return to the level of other employments.
Página 17 - As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.