An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1G. Walker, 1822 - 47 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 68
Página 17
... bring together the different drugs made use of by the dyer , which often come from the remotest corners of the world ! What a variety of labour too is necessary in order to produce the tools of the meanest of those work- men ! To say ...
... bring together the different drugs made use of by the dyer , which often come from the remotest corners of the world ! What a variety of labour too is necessary in order to produce the tools of the meanest of those work- men ! To say ...
Página 23
... bring to perfection whatever talent or genius he may possess for that particular species of bu- siness . The difference of natural talents in different men is , in reality , much less than we are aware of ; and the very different genius ...
... bring to perfection whatever talent or genius he may possess for that particular species of bu- siness . The difference of natural talents in different men is , in reality , much less than we are aware of ; and the very different genius ...
Página 28
... brings back two hundred ton weight of goods . Six or eight men , therefore , by the help of water - carriage , can carry and bring back in the same time the same quantity of goods between London and Edinburgh as fifty broad - wheeled ...
... brings back two hundred ton weight of goods . Six or eight men , therefore , by the help of water - carriage , can carry and bring back in the same time the same quantity of goods between London and Edinburgh as fifty broad - wheeled ...
Página 47
... the sixteenth century , the value of gold and silver in Europe to about a third of what it had been before . As it cost less labour to bring those metals from the mine to the market CHAP . V. 47 THE WEALTH OF NATIONS .
... the sixteenth century , the value of gold and silver in Europe to about a third of what it had been before . As it cost less labour to bring those metals from the mine to the market CHAP . V. 47 THE WEALTH OF NATIONS .
Página 48
Adam Smith. to bring those metals from the mine to the market , so when they were brought thither they could purchase or command less labour ; and this revolution in their value , though perhaps the greatest , is by no means the only one ...
Adam Smith. to bring those metals from the mine to the market , so when they were brought thither they could purchase or command less labour ; and this revolution in their value , though perhaps the greatest , is by no means the only one ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Parte1 Adam Smith Vista completa - 1901 |
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1 Adam Smith Vista completa - 1910 |
An Inqury Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1 Adam Smith Vista completa - 1801 |
Términos y frases comunes
afford altogether ancient annual produce average price bank bank of England bills bills of exchange bullion butcher's meat cattle cent century cheap cheaper circulating capital commodities common labour commonly continually cultivation dealers dity division of labour effectual demand eight employed employment England Europe exchange expense farmer fertile frequently gold and silver greater quantity improvement increase industry interest landlord less London manner manufactures market price master ment merchant mines money price natural price necessarily necessary obliged occasion paid paper money parish particular perhaps Peru pound sterling pound weight precious metals present money price of corn price of labour profits of stock proportion quantity of labour quantity of silver raise real price regulated rent rise rude produce scarce scarcity Scotland seems seldom shillings society sometimes subsistence sufficient supply supposed things tillage tion town trade turally value of silver wages of labour wheat whole workmen
Pasajes populares
Página 200 - 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 188 - 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.
Página 21 - 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 7 - But in the way in which this business in now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head...
Página 19 - ... without the assistance and co-operation of many thousands, the very meanest person in a civilized country could not be provided, even according to what we very falsely imagine, the easy and simple manner in which he is commonly accommodated.
Página 74 - 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 183 - 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 72 - In this state of things, the whole produce of labour belongs to the labourer; and the quantity of labour commonly employed in acquiring or producing any commodity is the only circumstance which can regulate the quantity of labour which it ought commonly to purchase, command, or exchange for. As soon as stock has accumulated in the hands of particular persons, some of them will naturally employ it in setting to work industrious people, whom they will supply with materials and subsistence, in order...
Página 484 - The gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to market all the grass and corn of the country, produces itself not a single pile of either.
Página 423 - ... into three parts; the rent of land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock: and constitutes a revenue to three different orders of people; to those who live by rent...