An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1G. Richards, 1904 - 687 páginas |
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... hands , though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them . I have seen a small manufactory of this kind , where ten men only were employed , and where some of them consequently performed two or three distinct ...
... hands , though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them . I have seen a small manufactory of this kind , where ten men only were employed , and where some of them consequently performed two or three distinct ...
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... hands . How many different trades are employed in each branch of the linen and woollen manufactures , from the growers of the flax and the wool , to the bleachers and smoothers of the linen , or to the dyers and dressers of the cloth ...
... hands . How many different trades are employed in each branch of the linen and woollen manufactures , from the growers of the flax and the wool , to the bleachers and smoothers of the linen , or to the dyers and dressers of the cloth ...
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... hand could , by those who had never seen them , be supposed capable of acquiring . Secondly , the advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly lost in passing from one sort of work to another , is much greater than we should at ...
... hand could , by those who had never seen them , be supposed capable of acquiring . Secondly , the advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly lost in passing from one sort of work to another , is much greater than we should at ...
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... 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 . Independent , therefore , of his deficiency in ...
... 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 . Independent , therefore , of his deficiency in ...
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... hands employed in preparing his bread and his beer , the glass window which lets in the heat and the light , and keeps out the wind and the rain , with all the knowledge and art requisite for preparing that beautiful and happy invention ...
... hands employed in preparing his bread and his beer , the glass window which lets in the heat and the light , and keeps out the wind and the rain , with all the knowledge and art requisite for preparing that beautiful and happy invention ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1 Adam Smith Vista completa - 1892 |
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1 Adam Smith Vista completa - 1887 |
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1 Adam Smith Vista completa - 1870 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 146 - 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 137 - 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 16 - 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 55 - 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 160 - England, where it is often more difficult for a poor man to pass the artificial boundary of a parish, than an arm of the sea or a ridge of high mountains, natural boundaries which sometimes separate very distinctly different rates of wages in other countries.
Página 377 - Parsimony, and not industry, is the immediate cause of the increase of capital. Industry, indeed, provides the subject which parsimony accumulates. But whatever industry might acquire, if parsimony did not save and store up, the capital would never be the greater.
Página 313 - ... 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...
Página 87 - But what improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Página 419 - The consideration of his own private profit is the sole motive which determines the owner of any capital to employ it either in agriculture, in manufactures, or in some particular branch of the wholesale or retail trade.
Página 18 - But without the disposition to truck, barter, and exchange, every man must have procured to himself every necessary and conveniency of life which he wanted. All must have had the same duties to perform, and the same work to do, and there could have been no such difference of employment as could alone give occasion to any great difference of talents.