An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1G. Walker, 1822 - 47 páginas |
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... ounces , each of which contained a real ounce of good copper . The English pound sterling in the time of Edward I. contained a pound Tower weight , of silver of a known fine- ness . The Tower pound seems to have been something more than ...
... ounces , each of which contained a real ounce of good copper . The English pound sterling in the time of Edward I. contained a pound Tower weight , of silver of a known fine- ness . The Tower pound seems to have been something more than ...
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... ages of the Republic , was reduced to the twenty - fourth part of its original value , and , in- stead of weighing a pound , came to weigh only half an ounce . The English pound and penny . 40 BOOK I. THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF.
... ages of the Republic , was reduced to the twenty - fourth part of its original value , and , in- stead of weighing a pound , came to weigh only half an ounce . The English pound and penny . 40 BOOK I. THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF.
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Adam Smith. half an ounce . The English pound and penny . contain at present about a third only ; the Scots pound and penny about a thirty - sixth ; and the French pound and penny about a sixty - sixth part of their original value . By ...
Adam Smith. half an ounce . The English pound and penny . contain at present about a third only ; the Scots pound and penny about a thirty - sixth ; and the French pound and penny about a sixty - sixth part of their original value . By ...
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... ( in so many pounds sterling , for example ) , but in so many ounces either of silver or of silver of a certain standard . pure The rents which have been reserved in corn have preserved 50 BOOK I THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF.
... ( in so many pounds sterling , for example ) , but in so many ounces either of silver or of silver of a certain standard . pure The rents which have been reserved in corn have preserved 50 BOOK I THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF.
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... ounce of silver at Canton in China may command a greater quantity both of labour and of the necessaries and conveniencies of life than an ounce at London . A commodity , therefore , which sells for half an ounce of silver at Canton may ...
... ounce of silver at Canton in China may command a greater quantity both of labour and of the necessaries and conveniencies of life than an ounce at London . A commodity , therefore , which sells for half an ounce of silver at Canton may ...
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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...