The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nationsT. Cadell, 1812 |
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... revenue of the great body of the people, or what has been the nature of those funds, which, in different ages and nations, have supplied their annual nual consumption, is the object of these Four introduct. sirst INTRODUCTION.
... revenue of the great body of the people, or what has been the nature of those funds, which, in different ages and nations, have supplied their annual nual consumption, is the object of these Four introduct. sirst INTRODUCTION.
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... revenue of the sovereign, or commonwealth. In this book I have endeavoured to show ; fire, what are the necessary expenses of the sovereign, or commonwealth ; which of those expences ought to be defrayed by the general contribution of ...
... revenue of the sovereign, or commonwealth. In this book I have endeavoured to show ; fire, what are the necessary expenses of the sovereign, or commonwealth ; which of those expences ought to be defrayed by the general contribution of ...
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... revenues of the antient Saxon kings of England are faid to have been paid, not in money but in kind, that is, in victuals and provisions of all forts. William the Conqueror introduced the custom of paying them in money. This money ...
... revenues of the antient Saxon kings of England are faid to have been paid, not in money but in kind, that is, in victuals and provisions of all forts. William the Conqueror introduced the custom of paying them in money. This money ...
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... revenue as well as of all exchangeable value. All other revenue is ultimately derived from fome one or other of thefe. Whoever derives his revenue from a fund which is his own, muft draw it either from his labour, from his stock, or ...
... revenue as well as of all exchangeable value. All other revenue is ultimately derived from fome one or other of thefe. Whoever derives his revenue from a fund which is his own, muft draw it either from his labour, from his stock, or ...
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... revenue, unless perhaps the borrower is a spendthrift, who contracts a second debt in order to pay the interest of the fire. The revenue which proceeds altogether from land, is called rent, and belongs to the landlord. The revenue of ...
... revenue, unless perhaps the borrower is a spendthrift, who contracts a second debt in order to pay the interest of the fire. The revenue which proceeds altogether from land, is called rent, and belongs to the landlord. The revenue of ...
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.