The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nationsT. Cadell, 1812 |
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Página 36
... metals to give in exchange for it, he could easily proportion the quantity of the metal to the precise quantity of ... precious metals, where a small difference in the quantity makes a great difference in the value, even the business of ...
... metals to give in exchange for it, he could easily proportion the quantity of the metal to the precise quantity of ... precious metals, where a small difference in the quantity makes a great difference in the value, even the business of ...
Página 61
... metal which was peculiarly the standard or measure of value. In reality, during the continuance of any one regulated proportion between the respective values of the different metals in coin, the value of the most precious metal ...
... metal which was peculiarly the standard or measure of value. In reality, during the continuance of any one regulated proportion between the respective values of the different metals in coin, the value of the most precious metal ...
Página 257
... precious metals, and the precious stones. Food is in this manner, not only the original source of rent, but every other part of the produce of land which afterwards affords rent, derives that part of its value from the improvement of ...
... precious metals, and the precious stones. Food is in this manner, not only the original source of rent, but every other part of the produce of land which afterwards affords rent, derives that part of its value from the improvement of ...
Página 262
... precious metals, when separated from the ore, are so valuable that they can generally bear the ex- pence of a very long land, and of the most distant sea carriage. Their market is not confined to the countries in the neighbourhood of ...
... precious metals, when separated from the ore, are so valuable that they can generally bear the ex- pence of a very long land, and of the most distant sea carriage. Their market is not confined to the countries in the neighbourhood of ...
Página 263
... precious metals, at the moft fertile mines in the world, muft neceffarily more or lefs affect their price at every other in it. The price of copper in Japan must have fome influence upon its price at the copper mines in Europe, The ...
... precious metals, at the moft fertile mines in the world, muft neceffarily more or lefs affect their price at every other in it. The price of copper in Japan must have fome influence upon its price at the copper mines in Europe, The ...
Términos y frases comunes
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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.