An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1Mundell, Doig, and Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1809 |
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... considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day . But if they had all wrought separately and independ- ently , and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business , they certainly could not each of them ...
... considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day . But if they had all wrought separately and independ- ently , and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business , they certainly could not each of them ...
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... considered one of those metals as more peculiarly the measure of value than any of the other two ; and this preference seems generally to have been given to the metal which they happen first to make use of as the instrument of com ...
... considered one of those metals as more peculiarly the measure of value than any of the other two ; and this preference seems generally to have been given to the metal which they happen first to make use of as the instrument of com ...
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... considered as the stand- ard or measure of value . In England , gold was not considered as a legal tender for a long time after it was coined into money . The proportion between the values of gold and silver money was not fixed by any ...
... considered as the stand- ard or measure of value . In England , gold was not considered as a legal tender for a long time after it was coined into money . The proportion between the values of gold and silver money was not fixed by any ...
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... considered as the metal which was peculiarly the standard or measure of value . In reality , during the continuance of any one re- gulated proportion between the respective values of the different metals in coin , the value of the most ...
... considered as the metal which was peculiarly the standard or measure of value . In reality , during the continuance of any one re- gulated proportion between the respective values of the different metals in coin , the value of the most ...
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... considered as equivalent to a guinea , which per- haps , indeed , was worn and defaced too , but seldom so much so . The late regulations have brought the gold coin as near perhaps to its standard weight as it is possible to bring the ...
... considered as equivalent to a guinea , which per- haps , indeed , was worn and defaced too , but seldom so much so . The late regulations have brought the gold coin as near perhaps to its standard weight as it is possible to bring the ...
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Página 177 - 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 19 - 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. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.
Página 75 - The market price of every particular commodity is regulated by the proportion between the quantity which is actually brought to market, and the demand of those who are willing to pay the natural price of the commodity...
Página 167 - 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. The patrimony of a poor man...
Página 21 - The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.
Página 66 - 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.
Página 134 - THE whole of the advantages and disadvantages of the different employments of labour and stock* must, in the same neighbourhood, be either perfectly equal, or continually tending to equality.
Página 18 - Whether this propensity be one of those original principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given; or whether, as seems more probable, it be the necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to our present subject to enquire.
Página 14 - Each individual becomes more expert in his own peculiar branch, more work is done upon the whole, and the quantity of science is considerably increased by it.
Página 2 - ... than the greater part of those who work; yet the produce of the whole labour of the society is so great, that all are often abundantly supplied, and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniences of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.