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... subsistence . But though this principle ultimately pro- vides him with all the necessaries of life which he has occasion for , it neither does nor can provide him with them as he has occasion for them . The greater part of his ...
... subsistence . But though this principle ultimately pro- vides him with all the necessaries of life which he has occasion for , it neither does nor can provide him with them as he has occasion for them . The greater part of his ...
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... subsistence in no other place . A village is by much too narrow a sphere for him ; even an ordi- nary market town is scarce large enough to afford him constant occupation . In the lone houses and very small villages which are scattered ...
... subsistence in no other place . A village is by much too narrow a sphere for him ; even an ordi- nary market town is scarce large enough to afford him constant occupation . In the lone houses and very small villages which are scattered ...
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... subsistence of the labourer , than with equal quan- tities of gold and silver , or perhaps of any other com- modity . Equal quantities of corn , therefore , will , at distant times , be more nearly of the same real va- lue , or enable ...
... subsistence of the labourer , than with equal quan- tities of gold and silver , or perhaps of any other com- modity . Equal quantities of corn , therefore , will , at distant times , be more nearly of the same real va- lue , or enable ...
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Adam Smith. portion to the quantity of subsistence which it can purchase at that time . A rent , therefore , reserved in corn , is liable only to the variations in the quantity of labour which a certain quantity of corn can pur- chase ...
Adam Smith. portion to the quantity of subsistence which it can purchase at that time . A rent , therefore , reserved in corn , is liable only to the variations in the quantity of labour which a certain quantity of corn can pur- chase ...
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... subsistence , in order to make a profit by the sale of their work , or by what their labour adds to the value of the mate- rials . In exchanging the complete manufacture either for money , for labour , or for other goods , over and ...
... subsistence , in order to make a profit by the sale of their work , or by what their labour adds to the value of the mate- rials . In exchanging the complete manufacture either for money , for labour , or for other goods , over and ...
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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.