The Works of Adam Smith, Volumen2T. Cadell, 1812 - 2731 páginas |
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... feldom fee more , at one time , than those em- ployed in one fingle branch . Though in fuch manufactures , therefore , the work may really be divided into a much greater number of parts , than in thofe of a more trifling nature , the ...
... feldom fee more , at one time , than those em- ployed in one fingle branch . Though in fuch manufactures , therefore , the work may really be divided into a much greater number of parts , than in thofe of a more trifling nature , the ...
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... feldom fee more , at one time , than those em- ployed in one fingle branch . Though in fuch manufactures , therefore , the work may really be divided into a much greater number of parts , than in those of a more trifling nature , the ...
... feldom fee more , at one time , than those em- ployed in one fingle branch . Though in fuch manufactures , therefore , the work may really be divided into a much greater number of parts , than in those of a more trifling nature , the ...
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... feldom with his utmoft diligence make more than eight hundred or a thousand nails in a day . I have feen feveral boys under twenty years of age who had never exercised any other trade but that of making nails , and who , when they ...
... feldom with his utmoft diligence make more than eight hundred or a thousand nails in a day . I have feen feveral boys under twenty years of age who had never exercised any other trade but that of making nails , and who , when they ...
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... feldom very keen and hearty ; his mind , as they fay , does not go to it , and for fome time he rather trifles than applies to good purpose . I. BOOK purpose . The habit of fauntering and of OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR . 13.
... feldom very keen and hearty ; his mind , as they fay , does not go to it , and for fome time he rather trifles than applies to good purpose . I. BOOK purpose . The habit of fauntering and of OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR . 13.
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... feldom buy lefs than this , because what he was to give for it could feldom be divided without lofs ; and if he had a mind to buy more , he muft , for the fame reafons , have been obliged to buy double or triple the quan- tity , the ...
... feldom buy lefs than this , because what he was to give for it could feldom be divided without lofs ; and if he had a mind to buy more , he muft , for the fame reafons , have been obliged to buy double or triple the quan- tity , the ...
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Página 26 - The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What every thing is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it or exchange it for something else, is the toil and trouble which it can save to himself, and which it can impose upon other people.
Página 10 - But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and show them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them.
Página 126 - 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. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbour, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.
Página 24 - The things which have the greatest value in use have frequently little or no value in exchange; and, on the contrary, those which have the greatest value in exchange have frequently little or no value in use.
Página 26 - The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities.
Página 65 - The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating. Different accidents may sometimes keep them suspended a good deal above it, and sometimes force them down even somewhat below it. But whatever may be the obstacles which hinder them from settling in this center of repose and continuance, they are constantly tending towards it.
Página 10 - It is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals, which seem to know neither this nor any other species of contracts.
Página 10 - As it is the power of exchanging that gives occasion to the division of labour, so the extent of this division must always be limited by the extent of that power, or, in other words, by the extent of the market.
Página 138 - 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. It is impossible, indeed, to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies, much less to render them necessary.
Página 8 - The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.