An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1G. Richards, 1904 - 687 páginas |
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... seldom see more , at one time , than those employed in one single branch . Though in such manufactures , therefore , the work may really be divided into a much greater number of parts , than in those of a more trifling nature , the ...
... seldom see more , at one time , than those employed in one single branch . Though in such manufactures , therefore , the work may really be divided into a much greater number of parts , than in those of a more trifling nature , the ...
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... seldom much more than in proportion to the superiority of labour and expense . In agriculture , the labour of the rich country is not always much more productive than that of the poor ; or , at least , it is never so much more ...
... seldom much more than in proportion to the superiority of labour and expense . In agriculture , the labour of the rich country is not always much more productive than that of the poor ; or , at least , it is never so much more ...
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... seldom , with his utmost diligence , make more than eight hundred or a thousand nails in a day . I have seen several boys , under twenty years of age , who had never exercised any other trade but that of making nails , and who , when ...
... seldom , with his utmost diligence , make more than eight hundred or a thousand nails in a day . I have seen several boys , under twenty years of age , who had never exercised any other trade but that of making nails , and who , when ...
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... seldom buy less than this , because what he was to give for it could seldom be divided without loss ; and if he had a mind to buy more , he must , for the same reasons , have been obliged to buy double or triple the quantity , the value ...
... seldom buy less than this , because what he was to give for it could seldom be divided without loss ; and if he had a mind to buy more , he must , for the same reasons , have been obliged to buy double or triple the quantity , the value ...
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... other commodity . The butcher seldom carries his beef or his mutton to the baker or the brewer , in order to exchange them for bread or for beer ; but he carries them to the market , where he exchanges them 34 THE WEALTH OF NATIONS.
... other commodity . The butcher seldom carries his beef or his mutton to the baker or the brewer , in order to exchange them for bread or for beer ; but he carries them to the market , where he exchanges them 34 THE WEALTH OF NATIONS.
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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 |
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.