An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1G. Richards, 1904 - 687 páginas |
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... trade , but it is divided into a number of branches , of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades . One man draws out the wire ; another straights it ; a third cuts it ; a fourth points it ; a fifth grinds it at the top for ...
... trade , but it is divided into a number of branches , of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades . One man draws out the wire ; another straights it ; a third cuts it ; a fourth points it ; a fifth grinds it at the top for ...
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... trade of the carpenter is commonly separated from that of the smith . The spinner is almost always a distinct person from the weaver ; but the ploughman , the harrower , the sower of the seed , and the reaper of the corn , are often the ...
... trade of the carpenter is commonly separated from that of the smith . The spinner is almost always a distinct person from the weaver ; but the ploughman , the harrower , the sower of the seed , and the reaper of the corn , are often the ...
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... trade but that of making nails , and who , when they exerted themselves , could make , each of them , upwards of two ... trades can be carried on in the same workhouse , the loss of time is , no doubt , much less . It is , even in this ...
... trade but that of making nails , and who , when they exerted themselves , could make , each of them , upwards of two ... trades can be carried on in the same workhouse , the loss of time is , no doubt , much less . It is , even in this ...
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... trade ; and some by that of those who are called philosophers , or men of speculation , whose trade it is not to do any thing , but to observe every thing , and who , upon that account , are often capable of com- bining together the ...
... trade ; and some by that of those who are called philosophers , or men of speculation , whose trade it is not to do any thing , but to observe every thing , and who , upon that account , are often capable of com- bining together the ...
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... trade . The scattered families that live at eight or ten miles distance from the nearest of them , must learn to perform themselves a great number of little pieces of work , for which , in more populous countries , they would call in ...
... trade . The scattered families that live at eight or ten miles distance from the nearest of them , must learn to perform themselves a great number of little pieces of work , for which , in more populous countries , they would call in ...
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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.