 | Berch Berberoglu - 2002 - 236 páginas
...spent in performing a few simple operations . . . has no occasion to exert his understanding. ... He generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become."1 Yet he also saw the division of labor as the necessary foundation for the efficient production... | |
 | James Buchan - 2009 - 468 páginas
...a clear and distinct confutation in mine': Correspondence of Adam Smith, p. 164. 95. Much, not all: 'The man whose whole life is spent in performing a...as it is possible for a human creature to become.' An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, ed. RH Campbell, AS Skinner and WB... | |
 | J. Patrick Raines, Charles G. Leathers - 2003 - 264 páginas
...dulling routine of most work under specialization and division of labor makes people generally: ... as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human...torpor of his mind renders him, not only incapable of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgement... | |
 | Ziyad Marar - 2003 - 216 páginas
...frequently to one or two . . . 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. Despite attempts to stem the rising tide of alienation (think of Marx and Engels urging 'workers of... | |
 | E. K. Hunt - 2002 - 308 páginas
...who had stated that "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" (Smith 1970, p. 80). Forced into a condition of stupor and increasingly severely alienated, "the lot... | |
 | Adam Smith - 2004 - 260 páginas
...would have. 'The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations', Smith writes, 'of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the...as it is possible for a human creature to become.' So although markets and division of labour provide great material benefits, Smith also believed they... | |
 | Christopher Winch, John Gingell - 2004 - 184 páginas
...work. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the...as it is possible for a human creature to become. (Smith [1776], (1981), Book V, S.785-786) Smith wrote both as an observer and as a propagandist for... | |
 | Eyal Chowers - 2004 - 278 páginas
...whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are perhaps always the same ... has no occasion to exert his understanding...it is possible for a human creature to become. The uniformity of his stationary life naturally corrupts the courage of his mind, and makes him regard... | |
 | John Macdonald - 2004 - 264 páginas
...no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses,...as it is possible for a human creature to become." That doesn't sound as if Smith wanted the workers to hang up their brains along with their caps when... | |
 | Jay Schulkin - 2004 - 388 páginas
...no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses,...as it is possible for a human creature to become. iWealth of Nations, 1776, pp. 734-735i Owing to the fact that workmen . . . have been taught ... by... | |
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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... 
