An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1Mundell, Doig, and Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1809 |
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... fertile and equally well - cultivated land in its neigh- bourhood . The wages of the labour , and the profits of the stock employed in bringing such commodities to market , on the contrary , are seldom out of their natural proportion to ...
... fertile and equally well - cultivated land in its neigh- bourhood . The wages of the labour , and the profits of the stock employed in bringing such commodities to market , on the contrary , are seldom out of their natural proportion to ...
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... fertile , best cultivated , most indus- trious , and most populous countries in the world . It seems , however , to have been long stationary . Marco Polo , who visited it more than five hundred years ago , describes its cultivation ...
... fertile , best cultivated , most indus- trious , and most populous countries in the world . It seems , however , to have been long stationary . Marco Polo , who visited it more than five hundred years ago , describes its cultivation ...
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... fertile country which had before been much depopulated , where subsistence , consequently , should not be very difficult , and where , notwithstanding , three or four hundred thousand people die of hunger in one year , we may be assured ...
... fertile country which had before been much depopulated , where subsistence , consequently , should not be very difficult , and where , notwithstanding , three or four hundred thousand people die of hunger in one year , we may be assured ...
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... fertile and most favourably situated , the land near the sea - shore , and along the banks of na- vigable rivers . Such land , too , is frequently pur- chased at a price below the value even of its natural produce . Stock , employed in ...
... fertile and most favourably situated , the land near the sea - shore , and along the banks of na- vigable rivers . Such land , too , is frequently pur- chased at a price below the value even of its natural produce . Stock , employed in ...
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... fertile in a distant part of the country . Though it may 1 cost no more labour to cultivate the one than the other , it must always cost more to bring the produce of the distant land to market . A greater quantity of labour , therefore ...
... fertile in a distant part of the country . Though it may 1 cost no more labour to cultivate the one than the other , it must always cost more to bring the produce of the distant land to market . A greater quantity of labour , therefore ...
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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.