An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1Mundell, Doig, and Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1809 |
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... superior opulence and improvement of the latter country . The corn of France is , in the corn provinces , fully as good , and in most years nearly about the same price with the corn of England , though , in opulence and improve- ment ...
... superior opulence and improvement of the latter country . The corn of France is , in the corn provinces , fully as good , and in most years nearly about the same price with the corn of England , though , in opulence and improve- ment ...
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... superior to those of France , and much cheaper too in the same degree of goodness . In Poland there are said to be scarce any manufactures of any kind , a few of those coarser household manufactures ex- cepted , without which no country ...
... superior to those of France , and much cheaper too in the same degree of goodness . In Poland there are said to be scarce any manufactures of any kind , a few of those coarser household manufactures ex- cepted , without which no country ...
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... superior risk , or the difference of the insurance between land and water carriage . Were there no other communication between those two places , therefore , but by land carriage , as no goods could be transported from the one to the ...
... superior risk , or the difference of the insurance between land and water carriage . Were there no other communication between those two places , therefore , but by land carriage , as no goods could be transported from the one to the ...
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... superior to what would be due to the time employed about it . Such talents can seldom be acquired but in consequence of long appli- cation , and the superior value of their produce may frequently be no more than a reasonable compensa ...
... superior to what would be due to the time employed about it . Such talents can seldom be acquired but in consequence of long appli- cation , and the superior value of their produce may frequently be no more than a reasonable compensa ...
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... any advantage from the vio- lence of those tumultuous combinations , which , partly from the interposition of the civil magistrate , partly from the superior steadiness of the masters , partly from 90 B. I. WAGES OF LABOUR .
... any advantage from the vio- lence of those tumultuous combinations , which , partly from the interposition of the civil magistrate , partly from the superior steadiness of the masters , partly from 90 B. I. WAGES OF LABOUR .
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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.