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I. BOOK people , and he must be rich or poor according to the quantity of that labour which he can command , or which he can afford to purchase . The value of any commodity , therefore , to the perfon who poffeffes it , and who means ...
I. BOOK people , and he must be rich or poor according to the quantity of that labour which he can command , or which he can afford to purchase . The value of any commodity , therefore , to the perfon who poffeffes it , and who means ...
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The labourer is rich or poor , is well or ill rewarded , in proportion to the real , not to the nominal price of his labour . The diftinction between the real and the nominal price of commodities and labour ...
The labourer is rich or poor , is well or ill rewarded , in proportion to the real , not to the nominal price of his labour . The diftinction between the real and the nominal price of commodities and labour ...
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In fome parts of Scotland a few poor people make a trade of gathering , along the fea - fhore , thofe little variegated ftones commonly known by the name of Scotch Pebbles . The price which is paid to them by the ftone - cutter is ...
In fome parts of Scotland a few poor people make a trade of gathering , along the fea - fhore , thofe little variegated ftones commonly known by the name of Scotch Pebbles . The price which is paid to them by the ftone - cutter is ...
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A very poor man may be faid in fome fenfe to have a demand for a coach and fix ; he might like to have it ; but his demand is not an effectual demand , as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to fatisfy it .
A very poor man may be faid in fome fenfe to have a demand for a coach and fix ; he might like to have it ; but his demand is not an effectual demand , as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to fatisfy it .
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... fhould not be very difficult , and where , notwithstanding , three or four hundred thousand people die of hunger in one year , we may be affured that the funds deftined for the maintenance of the labouring poor are faft decaying .
... fhould not be very difficult , and where , notwithstanding , three or four hundred thousand people die of hunger in one year , we may be affured that the funds deftined for the maintenance of the labouring poor are faft decaying .
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Página 46 - 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 23 - 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 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. 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 44 - 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. Nothing is more useful than water: but it will purchase scarce anything; scarce anything can be had in exchange for it.
Página 8 - But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day...
Página 160 - We trust our health to the physician ; our fortune, and sometimes our life and reputation, to the lawyer and attorney. Such confidence could not safely be reposed in people of a very mean or low condition. Their reward must be such, therefore, as may give them that rank in the society which so important a trust requires.
Página 7 - ... those employed in every different branch of the work can often be collected into the same workhouse and placed at once under the view of the spectator. In those great manufactures...
Página 19 - The shepherd, the sorter of the wool, the woolcomber or carder, the dyer, the scribbler, the spinner, the weaver, the fuller, the dresser, with many others, must all join their different arts in order to complete even this homely production.
Página 18 - In the progress of society, philosophy or speculation becomes, like every other employment, the principal or sole trade and occupation of a particular class of citizens. Like every other employment too, it is subdivided into a great number of different branches, each of which affords occupation to a peculiar tribe or class of philosophers; and this subdivision of employment in philosophy, as well as in every other business, improves dexterity, and saves time.
Página 16 - The habit of sauntering and of indolent careless application, which is naturally or rather necessarily acquired by every country workman who is obliged to change his work and his tools every half hour, and to apply his hand in twenty different ways almost every day of his life, renders him almost always slothful and lazy, and incapable of any vigorous application even on the most pressing occasions.
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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 | 20 Jul. 2007 |
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