An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1G. Walker, 1822 - 47 páginas |
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... seems to depend more upon the former of those two circumstances than upon the latter . Among the savage nations of hunters and fishers , every individual who is able to work is more or less employed in useful labour , and endeavours to ...
... seems to depend more upon the former of those two circumstances than upon the latter . Among the savage nations of hunters and fishers , every individual who is able to work is more or less employed in useful labour , and endeavours to ...
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... seems to have taken place , in consequence of this ad- vantage . This separation too is generally carried furthest in those countries which enjoy the highest degree of industry and improvement ; what is the work of one man in a rude ...
... seems to have taken place , in consequence of this ad- vantage . This separation too is generally carried furthest in those countries which enjoy the highest degree of industry and improvement ; what is the work of one man in a rude ...
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... seems to have been originally owing to the division of labour . Men are much more likely to discover easier and readier me- thods of attaining any object , when the whole attention of their minds is directed towards that single object ...
... seems to have been originally owing to the division of labour . Men are much more likely to discover easier and readier me- thods of attaining any object , when the whole attention of their minds is directed towards that single object ...
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... seems more probable , it be the necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech , it belongs not to our present subject to inquire . It is common to all men , and to be found in no other race of animals , which seem to know ...
... seems more probable , it be the necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech , it belongs not to our present subject to inquire . It is common to all men , and to be found in no other race of animals , which seem to know ...
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... seems to arise not so much from nature , as from habit , custom , and education . When they came into the world , and for the first six or eight years of their existence , they were , perhaps , very much alike , and neither their ...
... seems to arise not so much from nature , as from habit , custom , and education . When they came into the world , and for the first six or eight years of their existence , they were , perhaps , very much alike , and neither their ...
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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...