An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1G. Walker, 1822 - 47 páginas |
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... obliged to attempt it , will scarce , I am assured , be able to make above two or three hundred nails in a day , and those too very bad ones . A smith who has been accustomed to make nails , but whose sole or principal business has not ...
... obliged to attempt it , will scarce , I am assured , be able to make above two or three hundred nails in a day , and those too very bad ones . A smith who has been accustomed to make nails , but whose sole or principal business has not ...
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... obliged to change his tools . The different operations into which the making of a pin , or of a metal button , is sub- divided , are all of them much more simple , and the dexterity of the person , of whose life it has been the sole ...
... obliged to change his tools . The different operations into which the making of a pin , or of a metal button , is sub- divided , are all of them much more simple , and the dexterity of the person , of whose life it has been the sole ...
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... obliged to support and defend itself , separately and independently , and derives no sort of advantage from that variety of talents with which nature has distinguished its fellows . Among men , on the contrary , the most dissimilar ...
... obliged to support and defend itself , separately and independently , and derives no sort of advantage from that variety of talents with which nature has distinguished its fellows . Among men , on the contrary , the most dissimilar ...
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... obliged to apply themselves to all the different branches of industry that have so much affinity to one another as to be employed about the same sort of materials . A country carpenter deals in every sort of work that is made of wood ...
... obliged to apply themselves to all the different branches of industry that have so much affinity to one another as to be employed about the same sort of materials . A country carpenter deals in every sort of work that is made of wood ...
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... 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 loss ; and if he had a mind to buy more , he must ...
... 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 loss ; and if he had a mind to buy more , he must ...
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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...