The Wealth of Nations, Books I-IIIPenguin Books, 1974 - 535 páginas |
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Página 147
... present proportion seems to be the only method of preventing this inconveniency . The inconveniency perhaps would be less if silver was rated in the coin as much above its proper proportion to gold as it is at present rated below it ...
... present proportion seems to be the only method of preventing this inconveniency . The inconveniency perhaps would be less if silver was rated in the coin as much above its proper proportion to gold as it is at present rated below it ...
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... present . When we read in Pliny , therefore , that Seius1 bought a white nightingale , as a present for the Empress Agrippina , at the price of six thou- sand sestertii , equal to about fifty pounds of our present money ; and that ...
... present . When we read in Pliny , therefore , that Seius1 bought a white nightingale , as a present for the Empress Agrippina , at the price of six thou- sand sestertii , equal to about fifty pounds of our present money ; and that ...
Página 352
... present times with what it was in a much remoter period , to- wards the end of the fifteenth century , when the labour was probably much less subdivided , and the machinery employed much more imperfect , than it is at present . In 1487 ...
... present times with what it was in a much remoter period , to- wards the end of the fifteenth century , when the labour was probably much less subdivided , and the machinery employed much more imperfect , than it is at present . In 1487 ...
Contenido
ΙΟ | 9 |
Introduction by Andrew Skinner II | 83 |
Of the Division of Labour | 109 |
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Adam Ferguson Adam Smith afford agriculture ancient annual produce bank butcher's meat cattle cent century circulating capital coin commerce commodities commonly consumed consumption continually corn dearer division of labour Dugald Stewart economic effect employed employment England Europe exchange exchangeable value expense farmer frequently gold and silver greater quantity increase industry interest land and labour landlord less maintain manner manufactures master ment merchant metals mines money price natural price necessarily necessary occasion ordinary ounce paid paper money particular perhaps Peru Physiocrats pound weight pounds precious metals present price of corn price of labour productive labour profits of stock proportion proprietors purchase quantity of labour quantity of silver raise real price regulated rent revenue rise rude produce Scotland seems seldom shillings society sometimes sort subsistence sufficient supply tillage tion town trade value of silver wages of labour wealth Wealth of Nations wheat whole workmen