 | Great Britain. Agricultural Tribunal of Investigation - 1924 - 422 páginas
...ordinary employment. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations . . . has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to...ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become / . . His dexterity at his own particular trade seems to be acquired at the expense of his intellectual,... | |
 | Charles Ryle Fay - 1928 - 488 páginas
...its human disadvantages. But they might well take as their text the following passage from Book V. : The man whose whole life is spent in performing a...as it is possible for a human creature to become. ... Of the great and extensive interests of his country he is altogether incapable of judging ; and... | |
 | Gordon S. Watkins - 1928 - 760 páginas
...faculties of the worker. No one has given us a better picture of these effects than has Adam Smith. "The man whose whole life is spent in performing a...ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become . . . His dexterity at his own particular trade seems, in this manner, to be acquired at the expense... | |
 | Alastair Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton, Harold Coffin Syrett - 1966 - 656 páginas
...manner, in which each can serve it with most effect.180 159. In another connection Smith wrote: ". . . the understandings of the greater part of men are...as it is possible for a human creature to become" (Smith, Wealth of Nations, II, 298). In "Of Luxury" Hume wrote: "In times, when industry and arts flourish,... | |
 | Janet McCracken - 2001 - 362 páginas
...debilitating for the poor: "The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations ... generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become" (Wealth of Nations, p. 734) and should be addressed politically by improved education. The point here... | |
 | John Mueller - 2001 - 348 páginas
...Adam Smith anticipated that as workers came to concentrate on repetitive tasks, they would "become as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become" and be rendered incapable of exercising "invention" or "of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender... | |
 | Louis G. Putterman, Professor of Economics Louis Putterman - 2001 - 308 páginas
...Adam Smith who wrote, "The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations . . . becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become."25 Although the operations of the specialized economist are hardly simple, a critic of modern... | |
 | Jon McKenzie - 2001 - 338 páginas
...Chomsky, "but not his denunciation of its inhuman effects, which will turn working people into oblects 'as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to be.""' Championing the glories of global performance and ignoring its traumatic effects, putting profits... | |
 | Wei-Bin Zhang - 2003 - 458 páginas
...worked the land. Adam Smith (1776) described the farmer's human capital structure in scathing terms: "The man whose whole life is spent in performing a...for a human creature to become. The torpor of his minds renders him, not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation,... | |
 | Noam Chomsky - 2003 - 500 páginas
...Smith phrased it, he "has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention" and "he naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such...as it is possible for a human creature to become," his mind falling "into that drowsy stupidity which, in a civilized society, seems to benumb the understanding... | |
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The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients... 
