The Principles of Political Economy: With Some Inquiries Respecting Their Application and a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the ScienceA. and C. Black, 1849 - 646 páginas |
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... labour , or of some other article or product , obtainable only by means of labour , in exchange for it . The power or capacity which particular articles or products have of satisfying one or more of the various wants and desires of ...
... labour , or of some other article or product , obtainable only by means of labour , in exchange for it . The power or capacity which particular articles or products have of satisfying one or more of the various wants and desires of ...
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... labour required to appropriate matter , and to fit and prepare it for our use , is the only means by which it ... labour employed in manufactures and com- merce is , in all respects , as creative of utility , and consequently of wealth ...
... labour required to appropriate matter , and to fit and prepare it for our use , is the only means by which it ... labour employed in manufactures and com- merce is , in all respects , as creative of utility , and consequently of wealth ...
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... labour is pro- ductive of wealth when employed in manufactures and commerce , as well as when it is employed in the cultivation of the land ; he has traced the various means by which labour may be rendered most effi- cient ; and has ...
... labour is pro- ductive of wealth when employed in manufactures and commerce , as well as when it is employed in the cultivation of the land ; he has traced the various means by which labour may be rendered most effi- cient ; and has ...
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... Labour the only Source of Wealth . ALL the operations of nature and art are reducible to , and really consist of , transmutations , that is , of changes of form and of place . By production , in this science , is not meant the ...
... Labour the only Source of Wealth . ALL the operations of nature and art are reducible to , and really consist of , transmutations , that is , of changes of form and of place . By production , in this science , is not meant the ...
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... labour has been applied to appropriate that matter , or to adapt it to our use , it is wholly destitute of value , and is not , nor ever has been , considered as ... Labour was the first price , the original purchase 62 LABOUR THE ONLY.
... labour has been applied to appropriate that matter , or to adapt it to our use , it is wholly destitute of value , and is not , nor ever has been , considered as ... Labour was the first price , the original purchase 62 LABOUR THE ONLY.
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Página 198 - Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for ; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what 'comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs. He supplies them abundantly with what they have occasion for, and they accommodate him as amply with what he has occasion for, and a general plenty diffuses itself through...
Página 431 - The liberal reward of labour," says Dr Smith, " as it encourages the propagation, so it increases the industry of the common people. The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives.