An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1Mundell, Doig, and Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1809 |
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Página 53
... reduced to twenty , or raised to two - and - twenty shillings , all accounts being kept , and almost all obli- gations for debt being expressed , in silver money , the greater part of payments could in either case be made with the same ...
... reduced to twenty , or raised to two - and - twenty shillings , all accounts being kept , and almost all obli- gations for debt being expressed , in silver money , the greater part of payments could in either case be made with the same ...
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... reduce the price of silver bullion to the mint price , it is not very probable that a like reform- ation will do so now , Were the silver coin brought back as near to its standard weight as the gold , a guinea , it is probable , would ...
... reduce the price of silver bullion to the mint price , it is not very probable that a like reform- ation will do so now , Were the silver coin brought back as near to its standard weight as the gold , a guinea , it is probable , would ...
Página 76
... reduce the price of the whole . The mar- ket price will sink more or less below the natural price , according as the greatness of the excess in- creases more or less the competition of the sellers , or according as it happens to be more ...
... reduce the price of the whole . The mar- ket price will sink more or less below the natural price , according as the greatness of the excess in- creases more or less the competition of the sellers , or according as it happens to be more ...
Página 80
... reduces the profits of the merchants who have any considerable quantity of them upon hand . It sinks , too , the ... reduced to the natu ral price , and perhaps for some time even below it , If the market is at a great distance from the ...
... reduces the profits of the merchants who have any considerable quantity of them upon hand . It sinks , too , the ... reduced to the natu ral price , and perhaps for some time even below it , If the market is at a great distance from the ...
Página 91
... reduce , for any considerable time , the ordinary wages even of the lowest species of labour . A man must always live by his work , and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him . They must even upon most occasions be ...
... reduce , for any considerable time , the ordinary wages even of the lowest species of labour . A man must always live by his work , and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him . They must even upon most occasions be ...
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Página 177 - 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 19 - 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 75 - The market price of every particular commodity is regulated by the proportion between the quantity which is actually brought to market, and the demand of those who are willing to pay the natural price of the commodity...
Página 167 - 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...
Página 21 - The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.
Página 66 - 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 134 - 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 18 - Whether this propensity be one of those original principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given; or whether, as seems more probable, it be the necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to our present subject to enquire.
Página 14 - Each individual becomes more expert in his own peculiar branch, more work is done upon the whole, and the quantity of science is considerably increased by it.
Página 2 - ... than the greater part of those who work; yet the produce of the whole labour of the society is so great, that all are often abundantly supplied, and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniences of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.