An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1G. Richards, 1904 - 687 páginas |
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... merchants and carriers , besides , must have been employed in trans- porting the materials from some of those workmen to others who often live in a very distant part of the country ? How much commerce and navigation in particular , how ...
... merchants and carriers , besides , must have been employed in trans- porting the materials from some of those workmen to others who often live in a very distant part of the country ? How much commerce and navigation in particular , how ...
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... merchant , and the society itself grows to be what is properly a commercial society . But when the division of labour first began to take place , this power of exchanging must frequently have been very much clogged and embarrassed in ...
... merchant , and the society itself grows to be what is properly a commercial society . But when the division of labour first began to take place , this power of exchanging must frequently have been very much clogged and embarrassed in ...
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... merchant , and yet are received by weight , and not by tale , in the same manner as ingots of gold and bars of silver are at present . The revenues of the ancient Saxon kings of England are said to have been paid , not in money , but in ...
... merchant , and yet are received by weight , and not by tale , in the same manner as ingots of gold and bars of silver are at present . The revenues of the ancient Saxon kings of England are said to have been paid , not in money , but in ...
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... merchant who carries goods from the one to the other , has nothing to consider but the money price , or the difference between the quantity of silver for which he buys them , and that for which he is likely to sell them . Half an ounce ...
... merchant who carries goods from the one to the other , has nothing to consider but the money price , or the difference between the quantity of silver for which he buys them , and that for which he is likely to sell them . Half an ounce ...
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... merchant importers , like all other merchants , we may believe , endeavour , as well as they can , to suit their occasional importations to what they judge is likely to be the immediate demand . With all their attention , however , they ...
... merchant importers , like all other merchants , we may believe , endeavour , as well as they can , to suit their occasional importations to what they judge is likely to be the immediate demand . With all their attention , however , they ...
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 |
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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.