An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1Mundell, Doig, and Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1809 |
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... increase in the quantity of work , which , in consequence of the division of labour , the same number of people are ... increases the quantity of the work he can perform ; and the division of labour , by reducing every man's business to ...
... increase in the quantity of work , which , in consequence of the division of labour , the same number of people are ... increases the quantity of the work he can perform ; and the division of labour , by reducing every man's business to ...
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... increase the value of the metal coined in proportion to the extent of this small duty ; for the same reason that the fashion increases the value of plate in proportion to the price of that fashion . The superiority of coin above bullion ...
... increase the value of the metal coined in proportion to the extent of this small duty ; for the same reason that the fashion increases the value of plate in proportion to the price of that fashion . The superiority of coin above bullion ...
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... increase , but every subsequent profit is greater than the foregoing ; because the capital from which it is derived must always be greater . The capital which employs the weavers , for example , must be greater than that which employs ...
... increase , but every subsequent profit is greater than the foregoing ; because the capital from which it is derived must always be greater . The capital which employs the weavers , for example , must be greater than that which employs ...
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... increase greatly every year , so the produce of every succeeding year would be of vastly greater value than that of the foregoing . But there is no country in which the whole annual produce is employed in maintaining the industrious ...
... increase greatly every year , so the produce of every succeeding year would be of vastly greater value than that of the foregoing . But there is no country in which the whole annual produce is employed in maintaining the industrious ...
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... increase or dimi- nish , or continue the same from one year to another . CHAP . VII . Of the natural and market price of commodities . HERE is in every society or neighbourhood an or- Tdinary or dinary or average rate , both of wages ...
... increase or dimi- nish , or continue the same from one year to another . CHAP . VII . Of the natural and market price of commodities . HERE is in every society or neighbourhood an or- Tdinary or dinary or average rate , both of wages ...
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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.