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Among the favage nations of hunters and fishers , every individual who is able to work , is more or lefs employed in useful labour , and endeavours to provide , as well as he can , the neceffaries and conveniences of life , for himself ...
Among the favage nations of hunters and fishers , every individual who is able to work , is more or lefs employed in useful labour , and endeavours to provide , as well as he can , the neceffaries and conveniences of life , for himself ...
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When the two trades can be carried on in the fame workhoufe , the lofs of time is no doubt much lefs . It is even in this cafe , however , very confiderable . A man commonly faunters a little in turning his hand from one fort of ...
When the two trades can be carried on in the fame workhoufe , the lofs of time is no doubt much lefs . It is even in this cafe , however , very confiderable . A man commonly faunters a little in turning his hand from one fort of ...
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In fuch fituations we can fcarce expect to find even a fmith , a carpenter , or a mafon , within lefs than twenty miles of another of the fame trade . The fcattered families that III . live at eight or ten miles diftance from live 26 ...
In fuch fituations we can fcarce expect to find even a fmith , a carpenter , or a mafon , within lefs than twenty miles of another of the fame trade . The fcattered families that III . live at eight or ten miles diftance from live 26 ...
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... this power of exchanging must frequently have been very much clogged and embarraffed in its operations . One man , we shali fuppofe , has more of a certain commodity than he himself has occafion for , while another has lefs .
... this power of exchanging must frequently have been very much clogged and embarraffed in its operations . One man , we shali fuppofe , has more of a certain commodity than he himself has occafion for , while another has lefs .
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Metals can not only be kept with as little lofs as any other commodity , fcarce any thing being lefs perishable than they are , but they can likewise , without any lofs , be divided into any number of parts , as by fufion thofe parts ...
Metals can not only be kept with as little lofs as any other commodity , fcarce any thing being lefs perishable than they are , but they can likewise , without any lofs , be divided into any number of parts , as by fufion thofe parts ...
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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 xi - 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 xi - 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 xi - 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 6 - 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.
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| Título | The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nations Volumen2 de The Works of Adam Smith, Adam Smith |
| Autor | Adam Smith |
| Editor | T. Cadell, 1812 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 6 Mayo 2008 |
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