| John Craig - 1814 - 408 páginas
...distinguish between productive and unproductive labour. *« There is one sort of labour," he observes, '« which adds to the value of the subject upon '« which...is bestowed : there is another which " has no such effect. The former, as it produce* " a value, may be called productive, the latter «« unproductive,... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch - 1825 - 446 páginas
...impoverish, not to enrich, the society. But to avoid the chance of misrepresentation, I shall give Dr Smith's opinions in his •own words. " There is one...it is bestowed; there is another which has no such effect. The 'former, as it produces a value, may be called productive ; the latter unproductive labour.... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch - 1825 - 204 páginas
...impoverish, not to enrich the society. But to avoid the chance of misrepresentation, we shall give Dr. Smith's opinions in his own words. • . " There is...it is bestowed ; there is another which has no such effect. The former, as it produces a value, may be called productive ; -the latter unproductive labour.... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1827 - 674 páginas
...person moderately versed in Political Economy. He remarks, that — " There is one sort of labour, which adds to the value of the subject upon which...it is bestowed : there is another which has no such effect. The former, as it produces a value, may be called productive, the latter, unproductive labour.... | |
| Samuel Read - 1829 - 440 páginas
...or to the description of persons whom it maintains. " There is one sort of labour," says Dr Smith, " which adds to the value of the subject upon which...it is bestowed ; there is another which has no such effect. The former, as it produces a value, may be called productive; the latter, unproductive labour.... | |
| Travers Twiss - 1847 - 358 páginas
...for the maintenance of productive hands, tends to increase the number of those hands, whose labour adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed. It tends, therefore, to increase the exchangeable value of the annual produce of the land and labour... | |
| Sir Travers Twiss - 1847 - 356 páginas
...for the maintenance of productive hands, tends to increase the number of those hands, whose labour adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed. It tends, therefore, to increase -the exchangeable value of the annual produce of the land and labour... | |
| John R. McCulloch - 1849 - 682 páginas
...taking away the most powerful incentives to production ! 1 " Philosophical Works," vo!, iii. p. S10. Dr Smith has given another criterion of productive...it is bestowed ; there is another which has no such effect. The former, as it produces a value, may be called productive ; the latter, unproductive labour.... | |
| Frederick Guest Tomlins - 1850 - 90 páginas
...this subject, as on many others, a distinction without a difference : — "There is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which...it is bestowed ; there is another which has no such effect. The former, as it produces a value, may be called productive — the latter, unproductive,... | |
| Samuel Couling - 1855 - 200 páginas
...constitutes useful and productive labour is given by Dr. Adam Smith : — " There is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which...it is bestowed ; there is another which has no such effect. The former, as it produces a value, may be called productive — the latter unproductive labour.... | |
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