An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1G. Walker, 1822 - 47 páginas |
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Página 59
... England , gold was not considered as a legal ten- der for a long time after it was coined into mo- ney . The proportion between the values of gold and silver money was not fixed by any public law or proclamation ; but was left to be ...
... England , gold was not considered as a legal ten- der for a long time after it was coined into mo- ney . The proportion between the values of gold and silver money was not fixed by any public law or proclamation ; but was left to be ...
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... England no duty or seignorage is paid upon the coinage , and he who carries a pound weight or an ounce weight of standard gold bullion to the mint gets back a pound weight or an ounce weight of gold in coin , without any deduction ...
... England no duty or seignorage is paid upon the coinage , and he who carries a pound weight or an ounce weight of standard gold bullion to the mint gets back a pound weight or an ounce weight of gold in coin , without any deduction ...
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... England , or the quantity of silver coin which the mint gives in return for standard silver bullion . Before the reformation of the gold coin , the market price of standard silver bullion was , upon different occasions , five shillings ...
... England , or the quantity of silver coin which the mint gives in return for standard silver bullion . Before the reformation of the gold coin , the market price of standard silver bullion was , upon different occasions , five shillings ...
Página 64
... England , raised by the high price of copper in English coin , so the price of silver in bullion is not sunk by the low rate of silver in English coin . Silver in bullion still preserves its proper proportion to gold ; for the same ...
... England , raised by the high price of copper in English coin , so the price of silver in bullion is not sunk by the low rate of silver in English coin . Silver in bullion still preserves its proper proportion to gold ; for the same ...
Página 66
... , and though , in England , the coinage is free , yet the gold which is carried in bullion to the mint can seldom be returned in coin to the owner till after a delay of several weeks . In 66 THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF BOOK I.
... , and though , in England , the coinage is free , yet the gold which is carried in bullion to the mint can seldom be returned in coin to the owner till after a delay of several weeks . In 66 THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF BOOK I.
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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...