An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1Mundell, Doig, and Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1809 |
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... kind . I now , however , find myself at liberty to acknowledge my very great obligations to Mr. Henry Hope of Amsterdam . To that gentleman I owe the most distinct , as well as liberal information concern- ing a very interesting and ...
... kind . I now , however , find myself at liberty to acknowledge my very great obligations to Mr. Henry Hope of Amsterdam . To that gentleman I owe the most distinct , as well as liberal information concern- ing a very interesting and ...
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... kind , where ten men only were employed , and where some of them consequently performed two or three distinct operations . But though they were very poor , and therefore but indifferently accommo- dated with the necessary machinery ...
... kind , where ten men only were employed , and where some of them consequently performed two or three distinct operations . But though they were very poor , and therefore but indifferently accommo- dated with the necessary machinery ...
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... kind , a few of those coarser household manufactures ex- cepted , without which no country can well subsist . This great increase in the quantity of work , which , in consequence of the division of labour , the same number of people are ...
... kind , a few of those coarser household manufactures ex- cepted , without which no country can well subsist . This great increase in the quantity of work , which , in consequence of the division of labour , the same number of people are ...
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... pass very quickly from one kind of work to another , that is carried on in a different place , and with quite different tools . A country weaver , who cultivates a small farm , must lose a good deal of time CH . I. 11 DIVISION OF LABOUR .
... pass very quickly from one kind of work to another , that is carried on in a different place , and with quite different tools . A country weaver , who cultivates a small farm , must lose a good deal of time CH . I. 11 DIVISION OF LABOUR .
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... kind , proposes to do this . Give me that which I want , and you shall have this which you want , is the meaning of every such offer ; and it is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater part of those good offices ...
... kind , proposes to do this . Give me that which I want , and you shall have this which you want , is the meaning of every such offer ; and it is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater part of those good offices ...
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Página 177 - 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 19 - 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 75 - The market price of every particular commodity is regulated by the proportion between the quantity which is actually brought to market, and the demand of those who are willing to pay the natural price of the commodity...
Página 167 - 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...
Página 21 - The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.
Página 66 - 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 134 - 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.
Página 18 - Whether this propensity be one of those original principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given; or whether, as seems more probable, it be the necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to our present subject to enquire.
Página 14 - Each individual becomes more expert in his own peculiar branch, more work is done upon the whole, and the quantity of science is considerably increased by it.
Página 2 - ... than the greater part of those who work; yet the produce of the whole labour of the society is so great, that all are often abundantly supplied, and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniences of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.