...variety of labour is employed about each of them, we shall be sensible that without the assistance and co-operation of many thousands the very meanest...simple manner in which he is commonly accommodated." 1 If anything, this interdependence of one producer on another has not diminished but increased since...

...variety of labour is employed about each of them, we shall be sensible that without the assistance and co-operation of many thousands, the very meanest...simple manner in which he is commonly accommodated. 7 Several lessons are implicit in Smith's example. First, in a rich country people tend to underestimate...

...variety of labour is employed about each of them, we shall be sensible that without the assistance and co-operation of many thousands, the very meanest...simple manner in which he is commonly accommodated" (p. 23). Schumpeter remarks that "nobody either before or after A[dam] Smith, ever thought of putting...

...listing the items in a modest household he commented: "We shall be sensible that without the assistance and cooperation of many thousands, the very meanest...the easy and simple manner in which he is commonly accommodated."36 While it can be made very clear what Smith was referring to in the uniquely commercialized...

...quantity of labor. Without a division of labor, "the very meanest person in a civilised country 54 could not be provided, even according to, what we...simple manner in which he is commonly accommodated." 2 The course of the production of a woolen jacket is another proof of this: there is the shepherd,...

...variety of labour is employed about each of them, we shall be sensible that without the assistance and co-operation of many thousands, the very meanest...Compared, indeed, with the more extravagant luxury ot the great, his accommodation must no doubt appear extremely simple and easy; and yet it may be true,...

...of everyIf we examine, I say, all those things ... we shall be sensible that without the assistance and cooperation of many thousands, the very meanest...according to what we very falsely imagine, the easy and simply manner in which he is commonly accommodated. Compared indeed with the more extravagant luxury...

...extravagant luxury of the great, the accommodation . . . of the most common artificer or day-labourer . . . must no doubt appear extremely simple and easy; and...it may be true, perhaps, that the accommodation of a European prince does not always so much exceed that of an industrious and frugal peasant, as the...

.... . . ; if we examine, I say, all those things ... we shall be sensible that without the assistance and cooperation of many thousands, the very meanest...it may be true, perhaps, that the accommodation of a European prince does not always so much exceed that of an industrious and frugal peasant, as the...

...variety of labour is employed about each of them, we shall be sensible that without the assistance and co-operation of many thousands, the very meanest...simple manner in which he is commonly accommodated.' (WN , Ii11; 117.) However, the aspect of this discussion which is most immediately relevant is the...