An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsP. F. Collier & son, 1909 - 590 頁 |
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第 24 頁
... ordinary market town is scarce large enough to afford him constant occupation . In the lone houses and very small villages which are scattered about in so desert a country as the Highlands of Scotland , every farmer must be butcher ...
... ordinary market town is scarce large enough to afford him constant occupation . In the lone houses and very small villages which are scattered about in so desert a country as the Highlands of Scotland , every farmer must be butcher ...
第 39 頁
... ordinary state of health , strength and spirits ; in the ordinary degree of his skill and dexterity , he must always lay down . the same portion of his ease , his liberty , and his happiness . The price which he pays must always be the ...
... ordinary state of health , strength and spirits ; in the ordinary degree of his skill and dexterity , he must always lay down . the same portion of his ease , his liberty , and his happiness . The price which he pays must always be the ...
第 42 頁
... ordinary price of that necessary of life . The average or ordinary price of corn again is regulated , as I shall likewise endeavour to show hereafter , by the value of silver , by the richness or barrenness of the mines which supply the ...
... ordinary price of that necessary of life . The average or ordinary price of corn again is regulated , as I shall likewise endeavour to show hereafter , by the value of silver , by the richness or barrenness of the mines which supply the ...
第 43 頁
... ordinary transactions of human life . At the same time and place the real and the nominal price of all commodities are exactly in proportion to one another . The more or less money you get for any commodity , in the London market , for ...
... ordinary transactions of human life . At the same time and place the real and the nominal price of all commodities are exactly in proportion to one another . The more or less money you get for any commodity , in the London market , for ...
第 48 頁
... ordinary or average price . When , on the other hand , they import less than is wanted , they get something more than this price . But when , under all those occasional fluctuations , the market price either of gold or silver bullion ...
... ordinary or average price . When , on the other hand , they import less than is wanted , they get something more than this price . But when , under all those occasional fluctuations , the market price either of gold or silver bullion ...
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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...