An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1G. Walker, 1822 - 47 páginas |
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... and arrows , for example , with more readiness and dexterity than any other . He frequently exchanges them for cattle or for venison with his companions ; and In he finds at last that he can in this 22 BOOK I. THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF.
... and arrows , for example , with more readiness and dexterity than any other . He frequently exchanges them for cattle or for venison with his companions ; and In he finds at last that he can in this 22 BOOK I. THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF.
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... cattle and venison than if he himself went to the field to catch them . From a regard to his own interest , therefore , the making of bows and arrows grows to be his chief business , and he becomes a sort of armourer . Another excels in ...
... cattle and venison than if he himself went to the field to catch them . From a regard to his own interest , therefore , the making of bows and arrows grows to be his chief business , and he becomes a sort of armourer . Another excels in ...
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... cattle are said to have been the common instru- ment of commerce ; and , though they must have been a most inconvenient one , yet in old times we find things were frequently valued according to the number of cattle which had been given ...
... cattle are said to have been the common instru- ment of commerce ; and , though they must have been a most inconvenient one , yet in old times we find things were frequently valued according to the number of cattle which had been given ...
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... cattle to give in exchange for it , must have been obliged to buy salt to the value of a whole ox , or a whole sheep , at a time . He could seldom buy less than this , because what he was to give for it could seldom be divided with- out ...
... cattle to give in exchange for it , must have been obliged to buy salt to the value of a whole ox , or a whole sheep , at a time . He could seldom buy less than this , because what he was to give for it could seldom be divided with- out ...
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... cattle employed in producing it , and the third pays the profit of the farmer . These three parts seem either immediately or ulti- mately to make up the whole price of corn . A fourth part , it may perhaps be thought , is neces- sary ...
... cattle employed in producing it , and the third pays the profit of the farmer . These three parts seem either immediately or ulti- mately to make up the whole price of corn . A fourth part , it may perhaps be thought , is neces- sary ...
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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 |
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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...