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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 gen- tleman I owe the most distinct as well as liberal information concerning a very interesting and im ...
... kind . I now , however , find myself at liberty to acknowledge my very great obligations to Mr Henry Hope of Amsterdam . To that gen- tleman I owe the most distinct as well as liberal information concerning a very interesting and im ...
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... kind should be made . Accordingly , Mr Playfair of London has had the boldness to follow Smith , by endeavouring to supply , in part , this desideratum , by adding supplementary chapters and notes to the Wealth of Nations . But it is ...
... kind should be made . Accordingly , Mr Playfair of London has had the boldness to follow Smith , by endeavouring to supply , in part , this desideratum , by adding supplementary chapters and notes to the Wealth of Nations . But it is ...
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... kind of labour is more profitable to the community than the latter ? The real es- sence of all wealth , and that which determines its value , is the necessity under which the consumer lies to purchase it ; for , in truth , there is no ...
... kind of labour is more profitable to the community than the latter ? The real es- sence of all wealth , and that which determines its value , is the necessity under which the consumer lies to purchase it ; for , in truth , there is no ...
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... kind may be disposed of in such a way as to furnish a rent to the landed pro- prietor . Principles which regulate the proportion of the price of these products , which is formed by the rent --- book 1 , ch . xi . Relation between the ...
... kind may be disposed of in such a way as to furnish a rent to the landed pro- prietor . Principles which regulate the proportion of the price of these products , which is formed by the rent --- book 1 , ch . xi . Relation between the ...
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... kind of consumption ; and hence it happens , that the value of one determines and limits that of another --- ibid . The relations between values of different natures vary according to the state of society . This state is improving ...
... kind of consumption ; and hence it happens , that the value of one determines and limits that of another --- ibid . The relations between values of different natures vary according to the state of society . This state is improving ...
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Página 7 - But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day...
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 selflove, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.
Página 7 - ... which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them.
Página 106 - It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.
Página 6 - ... could scarce, perhaps, with his utmost industry, make one pin in a day, and certainly could not make twenty. But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades.
Página 15 - 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 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 94 - But though North America is not yet so rich as England, it is much more thriving, and advancing with much greater rapidity to the further acquisition of riches. The most decisive mark of the prosperity of any country is the increase of the number of its inhabitants.
Página 134 - 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.
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.