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A village is by much too narrow a fphere for him ; even an ordinary market town is fcarce large enough to afford him conftant occupation . In the lone houfes and very fmall villages which are fcattered about in fo defert a country as ...
A village is by much too narrow a fphere for him ; even an ordinary market town is fcarce large enough to afford him conftant occupation . In the lone houfes and very fmall villages which are fcattered about in fo defert a country as ...
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... fink them below their natural or ordinary rate ; or , what are the caufes which fometimes hinder the market price , that is , the actual price of commodities , from coinciding exactly with what may be called their natural price .
... fink them below their natural or ordinary rate ; or , what are the caufes which fometimes hinder the market price , that is , the actual price of commodities , from coinciding exactly with what may be called their natural price .
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There may be more labour in an hour's hard work than in two hours eafy bufinefs ; or in an hour's application to a trade which it coft ten years labour to learn , than I. BOOK than in a month's induftry at an ordinary PRICE OF ...
There may be more labour in an hour's hard work than in two hours eafy bufinefs ; or in an hour's application to a trade which it coft ten years labour to learn , than I. BOOK than in a month's induftry at an ordinary PRICE OF ...
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I. BOOK than in a month's induftry at an ordinary and obvious employment . But it is not easy to find any accurate measure either of hardship or ingenuity . In exchanging indeed the different productions of different forts of labour for ...
I. BOOK than in a month's induftry at an ordinary and obvious employment . But it is not easy to find any accurate measure either of hardship or ingenuity . In exchanging indeed the different productions of different forts of labour for ...
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In his ordinary ftate of health , ftrength and fpirits ; in the ordinary degree of his fkill and dexterity , he must always lay down the fame portion of his ease , his liberty , and his happiness . The price which he pays muft always be ...
In his ordinary ftate of health , ftrength and fpirits ; in the ordinary degree of his fkill and dexterity , he must always lay down the fame portion of his ease , his liberty , and his happiness . The price which he pays muft always be ...
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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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