An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1Mundell, Doig, and Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1809 |
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... towns . Scarce any nation has dealt equally and impartially with every sort of industry . Since the downfal of the Roman empire , the policy of Europe has been more favourable to arts , manufactures , and commerce , the industry of towns ...
... towns . Scarce any nation has dealt equally and impartially with every sort of industry . Since the downfal of the Roman empire , the policy of Europe has been more favourable to arts , manufactures , and commerce , the industry of towns ...
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... towns , others of that which is carried on in the country . Those theories have had a consi- derable influence , not only upon the opinions of men of learning , but upon the public conduct of princes and sovereign states . I have ...
... towns , others of that which is carried on in the country . Those theories have had a consi- derable influence , not only upon the opinions of men of learning , but upon the public conduct of princes and sovereign states . I have ...
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... town . A porter , for example , can find employ- ment and subsistence in no other place . A village is by much too narrow a sphere for him ; even an or- dinary market town is scarce large enough to afford him constant occupation . In ...
... town . A porter , for example , can find employ- ment and subsistence in no other place . A village is by much too narrow a sphere for him ; even an or- dinary market town is scarce large enough to afford him constant occupation . In ...
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... towns , but between all the considerable vil- lages , and even to many farm houses in the country ; nearly in the same manner as the Rhine and the Maese do in Holland at present . The extent and easiness of this inland navigation was ...
... towns , but between all the considerable vil- lages , and even to many farm houses in the country ; nearly in the same manner as the Rhine and the Maese do in Holland at present . The extent and easiness of this inland navigation was ...
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... . Hence the exorbitant price of the necessaries of life during the blockade of a town , or in a famine . When the quantity brought to market exceeds the effectual demand , it cannot be all sold to those CH . VII . 75 PRICE OF COMMODITIES .
... . Hence the exorbitant price of the necessaries of life during the blockade of a town , or in a famine . When the quantity brought to market exceeds the effectual demand , it cannot be all sold to those CH . VII . 75 PRICE OF COMMODITIES .
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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.