...For Adam Smith, commodity exchange was the defining characteristic of people. He argued that it was 'common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals' (1776: 12). It was a natural form of exchange for people to engage in according to Smith. 104 Marx's...

...exchange one thing for another' was 'the necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech ... 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.'16 He apparently believed that human...

...(1833-1899) American lawyer The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another ... is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. Adam Smith (1723-1790) Scottish economist Everyone lives by selling something. Robert Louis Stevenson...

...consequence of the faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to our present subject to enquire. // 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. . . . Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair...

...propensity to exchange was in turn probably 'a necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech'. 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.24 In The Wealth of Nations the ultimate...

...principle or propensity in human nature, which has in view no such extensive utility. This is a propensity, common to all men and to be found in no other race of animals, a propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another. That this propensity is common to...

...this propensity to our natural inclination to persuade. Moreover, this propensity is uniquely human, 'it is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals'. Certainly, 'nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with...

...poet. Queen Atab.pt. 5(1813). 25 The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another ... up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no though ADAM SMITH (1 723-901. Scollish economist. The Wealth of Nations, vol. l.bk. l,ch. 2(1776). 26 Perpetual...

...economic and political agency: "The propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another . . . [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." Smith emphasized that this propensity...

...sets humans apart from other animal species. According to Smith (nd [1776] p. 12) this characteristic "is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals". The perceived division between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom sometimes became in later...