An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1G. Richards, 1904 - 687 páginas |
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... land and water - carriage . Were there no other communication between those two places , therefore , but by land - carriage , as no goods could be transported from the one to the other , except such whose price was very considerable in ...
... land and water - carriage . Were there no other communication between those two places , therefore , but by land - carriage , as no goods could be transported from the one to the other , except such whose price was very considerable in ...
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... 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 . The wood of the forest , the grass of the field , and all ...
... 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 . The wood of the forest , the grass of the field , and all ...
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... land , makes a part of the price of a salmon , as well as wages and profit . In some parts of Scotland , a few poor people make a trade of gathering , along the sea shore , those little variegated stones commonly known by the name of ...
... land , makes a part of the price of a salmon , as well as wages and profit . In some parts of Scotland , a few poor people make a trade of gathering , along the sea shore , those little variegated stones commonly known by the name of ...
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... land . The revenue derived from labour is called wages ; that derived from stock , by the person who manages or ... land is called rent , and belongs to the landlord . The revenue of the farmer is derived partly from his labour , and ...
... land . The revenue derived from labour is called wages ; that derived from stock , by the person who manages or ... land is called rent , and belongs to the landlord . The revenue of the farmer is derived partly from his labour , and ...
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... land is situated , and partly by the natural or improved fertility of the land . These ordinary or average rates may be called the natural rates of wages , profit and rent , at the time and place in which they commonly prevail . When ...
... land is situated , and partly by the natural or improved fertility of the land . These ordinary or average rates may be called the natural rates of wages , profit and rent , at the time and place in which they commonly prevail . When ...
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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 |
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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.