The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nationsT. Cadell, 1812 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 100
Página 11
... fame degree of goodness, is as cheap as that of France, notwithstanding the superior opulence and improvement of the ... quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, BOOK the fame number of people are capable of per ...
... fame degree of goodness, is as cheap as that of France, notwithstanding the superior opulence and improvement of the ... quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, BOOK the fame number of people are capable of per ...
Página 12
Adam Smith. BOOK the fame number of people are capable of per- . L forming, is owing to three different circumstances ... quantity of the work he can perform ; and the division of labour, by reducing every man's business to some one ...
Adam Smith. BOOK the fame number of people are capable of per- . L forming, is owing to three different circumstances ... quantity of the work he can perform ; and the division of labour, by reducing every man's business to some one ...
Página 16
... quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for ; and every other workman being exactly in the fame situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what ...
... quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for ; and every other workman being exactly in the fame situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what ...
Página 28
... fame time the fame quantity of goods between London and Edinburgh, as fifty broad-wheeled waggons, attended by a hundred men, and drawn by four hundred horfes. Upon two hundred tons of goods, therefore, carried by the cheapeft land ...
... fame time the fame quantity of goods between London and Edinburgh, as fifty broad-wheeled waggons, attended by a hundred men, and drawn by four hundred horfes. Upon two hundred tons of goods, therefore, carried by the cheapeft land ...
Página 39
... quantity of metal contained in them. In the time of Servius Tullius, who sirst coined money at Rome, the Roman As or Pondo contained a Roman pound of good copper. It was divided in the fame manner as our Troyes pound, into twelve ounces ...
... quantity of metal contained in them. In the time of Servius Tullius, who sirst coined money at Rome, the Roman As or Pondo contained a Roman pound of good copper. It was divided in the fame manner as our Troyes pound, into twelve ounces ...
Términos y frases comunes
afford ancient annual produce average price bank BOOK bullion butcher's-meat capital cattle century CHAP cheaper circulating capital circulation cloth coin commodities commonly compenfate continually counties of Scotland dearer demand dities division of labour duce employed employment England Europe exchange expence faid fame manner fame quantity farmer feems fertile fome frequently ftock gold and silver gradually greater quantity increase industry landlord lefs less manufactures ment Messance moft money price muft natural price naturally nearly the fame occasion paid paper money particular pence perhaps Peru pound weight pounds precious metals present money price of corn price of labour proportion purchase quan quantity of labour quantity of silver quarter raise real price regulated rent revenue rife rude produce scarcity Scotland seems shillings sirst society sometimes subsistence sufficient supply thofe thoufand tillage tion tivated trade turally value of silver wages of labour wealth wheat wool workmen
Pasajes populares
Página 48 - The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What every thing is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it or exchange it for something else, is the toil and trouble which it can save to himself, and which it can impose upon other people.
Página 25 - But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and show them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them.
Página 190 - 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. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbour, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.
Página 74 - If among a nation of hunters, for example, it usually costs twice the labour to kill a beaver which it does to kill a deer, one beaver should naturally exchange for or be worth two deer. It is natural that what is usually the produce of two days or two hours labour, should be worth double of what is usually the produce of one day's or one hour's labour.
Página 46 - The things which have the greatest value in use have frequently little or no value in exchange; and, on the contrary, those which have the greatest value in exchange have frequently little or no value in use.
Página 21 - The shepherd, the sorter of the wool, the woolcomber or carder, the dyer, the scribbler, the spinner, the weaver, the fuller, the dresser, with many others, must all join their different arts in order to complete even this homely production.
Página 229 - But land, in almost any situation» produces a greater quantity of food than what is sufficient to maintain all the labour necessary for bringing it to market, in the most liberal way in which that labour is ever maintained. The surplus, too, is always more than sufficient to replace the stock which employed that labour, together with its profits. Something, therefore, always remains for a rent to the landlord.
Página 24 - It is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals, which seem to know neither this nor any other species of contracts.
Página 419 - ... which is a capital fixed and realized, as it were, in his person. Those talents, as they make a part of his fortune, so do they likewise of that of the society to which he belongs. The improved dexterity of a workman may be considered in the same light as a machine or instrument of trade which facilitates and abridges labour, and which, though it costs a certain expense, repays that expense with a profit...
Página 155 - THE whole of the advantages and disadvantages of the different employments of labour and stock must, in the same neighbourhood, be either perfectly equal or continually tending to equality. If in the same neighbourhood, there was any employment evidently either more or less advantageous than the rest, so many people would crowd into it in the one case, and so many would desert it in the other, that its advantages would soon return to the level of other employments.