An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsP. F. Collier & son, 1909 - 590 páginas |
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... sell a farthing's worth of goods , he was obliged to weigh the farthing . The operation of assaying is still more difficult , still more tedious , and , unless a part of the metal is fairly melted in the crucible , with proper ...
... sell a farthing's worth of goods , he was obliged to weigh the farthing . The operation of assaying is still more difficult , still more tedious , and , unless a part of the metal is fairly melted in the crucible , with proper ...
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... sell them . Half an ounce of silver at Canton in China may command a greater quantity both of labour and of the necessaries and conveniencies of life , than an ounce at London . A commodity , therefore , which sells for half an ounce of ...
... sell them . Half an ounce of silver at Canton in China may command a greater quantity both of labour and of the necessaries and conveniencies of life , than an ounce at London . A commodity , therefore , which sells for half an ounce of ...
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... sell a part of it for something less than the ordinary or average price . When , on the other hand , they import less than is wanted , they get something more than this price . But when , under all those occasional fluctuations , the ...
... sell a part of it for something less than the ordinary or average price . When , on the other hand , they import less than is wanted , they get something more than this price . But when , under all those occasional fluctuations , the ...
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... sell it again , yet if he sells it at a price which does not allow him the ordinary rate of profit in his neighbourhood , he is evidently a loser by the trade ; since by employing his stock in some other way he might have made that ...
... sell it again , yet if he sells it at a price which does not allow him the ordinary rate of profit in his neighbourhood , he is evidently a loser by the trade ; since by employing his stock in some other way he might have made that ...
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... sell his goods , it is the lowest at which he is likely to sell them for any considerable time ; at least where there is perfect liberty , or where he may change his trade as often as he pleases . The actual price at which any commodity ...
... sell his goods , it is the lowest at which he is likely to sell them for any considerable time ; at least where there is perfect liberty , or where he may change his trade as often as he pleases . The actual price at which any commodity ...
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Página 311 - ... intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.* Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it.
Página 107 - 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 422 - ... the duty of erecting and maintaining certain public works and certain public institutions, which it can never be for the interest of any individual, or small number of individuals, to erect and maintain; because the profit could never repay the expense to any individual or small number of individuals, though it may frequently do much more than repay it to a great society.
Página 400 - Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Página 13 - This great increase of the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Página 312 - What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.
Página 100 - 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 95 - 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 26 - 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.