An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1G. Walker, 1822 - 47 páginas |
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... less employed in useful labour , and endeavours to provide , as well as he can , the necessaries and conveniencies of life , for himself , or such of his family or tribe as are either too old , or too young , or too infirm to go a ...
... less employed in useful labour , and endeavours to provide , as well as he can , the necessaries and conveniencies of life , for himself , or such of his family or tribe as are either too old , or too young , or too infirm to go a ...
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... less observed . To take an example , therefore , from a very trifling manufacture , but one in which the divi- sion of labour has been very often taken notice of , the trade of the pin - maker ; a workman not educated to this business ...
... less observed . To take an example , therefore , from a very trifling manufacture , but one in which the divi- sion of labour has been very often taken notice of , the trade of the pin - maker ; a workman not educated to this business ...
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... less than we are aware of ; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions , when grown up to maturity , is not upon many occa- sions so much the cause , as the effect of the division of labour ...
... less than we are aware of ; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions , when grown up to maturity , is not upon many occa- sions so much the cause , as the effect of the division of labour ...
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... expect to find even a smith , a carpenter , or a mason , within less than twenty miles of another of the same trade . The scattered families that live at eight or ten miles distance from the nearest 26 BOOK I. THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF.
... expect to find even a smith , a carpenter , or a mason , within less than twenty miles of another of the same trade . The scattered families that live at eight or ten miles distance from the nearest 26 BOOK I. THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF.
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... less . The former consequently would be glad to dispose of , and the latter to purchase , a part of this superfluity . But if this latter should chance to have nothing that the former stands in need VOL . I. D of , no exchange can be ...
... less . The former consequently would be glad to dispose of , and the latter to purchase , a part of this superfluity . But if this latter should chance to have nothing that the former stands in need VOL . I. D of , no exchange can be ...
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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 |
An Inqury Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1 Adam Smith Vista completa - 1801 |
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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...