An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsP. F. Collier & son, 1909 - 590 頁 |
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第 11 頁
... increase of the productive powers of labour . The separation of different trades and employments from one another , seems to have taken place , in consequence of this advantage . This separation too is generally carried furthest in ...
... increase of the productive powers of labour . The separation of different trades and employments from one another , seems to have taken place , in consequence of this advantage . This separation too is generally carried furthest in ...
第 13 頁
... increase of dexterity in every particular workman ; secondly , to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in ... increases the quantity of the work he can per- form ; and the division of labour , by reducing every man's business to ...
... increase of dexterity in every particular workman ; secondly , to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in ... increases the quantity of the work he can per- form ; and the division of labour , by reducing every man's business to ...
第 57 頁
... increase greatly every year , so the produce of every succeeding year would be of vastly greater value than that of the foregoing . But there is no country in which the whole annual produce is employed in maintaining the industrious ...
... increase greatly every year , so the produce of every succeeding year would be of vastly greater value than that of the foregoing . But there is no country in which the whole annual produce is employed in maintaining the industrious ...
第 73 頁
... increase but in proportion to the increase of the funds which are destined for the payment of wages . These funds are of two kinds ; first , the revenue which is over and above what is necessary for the maintenance ; and , secondly ...
... increase but in proportion to the increase of the funds which are destined for the payment of wages . These funds are of two kinds ; first , the revenue which is over and above what is necessary for the maintenance ; and , secondly ...
第 74 頁
... increase of the number of its inhabitants . In Great Britain , and most other European countries , they are not supposed to double in less than five hundred years . In the British colo- nies in North America , it has been found , that ...
... increase of the number of its inhabitants . In Great Britain , and most other European countries , they are not supposed to double in less than five hundred years . In the British colo- nies in North America , it has been found , that ...
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第 315 頁 - ... 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.
第 137 頁 - 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.
第 442 頁 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
第 11 頁 - 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...
第 129 頁 - 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.
第 20 頁 - 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.
第 52 頁 - 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.
第 22 頁 - The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and education.
第 137 頁 - But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary.
第 17 頁 - What a variety of labour, too, is necessary in order to produce the tools of the meanest of those workmen! To say nothing of such complicated machines as the ship of the sailor, the mill of the...