An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsP. F. Collier & son, 1909 - 590 頁 |
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... trade , but it is divided into a number of branches , of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades . One man draws out the wire , another straights it , a third cuts it , a fourth points it , a fifth grinds it at the top for ...
... trade , but it is divided into a number of branches , of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades . One man draws out the wire , another straights it , a third cuts it , a fourth points it , a fifth grinds it at the top for ...
第 10 頁
... trade , but it is divided into a number of branches , of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades . One man draws out the wire , another straights it , a third cuts it , a fourth points it , a fifth grinds it at the top for ...
... trade , but it is divided into a number of branches , of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades . One man draws out the wire , another straights it , a third cuts it , a fourth points it , a fifth grinds it at the top for ...
第 15 頁
... trade ; and some by that of those who are called philosophers or men of specu- lation , whose trade it is not to do any thing , but to observe every thing ; and who , upon that account , are often capable of combining together the ...
... trade ; and some by that of those who are called philosophers or men of specu- lation , whose trade it is not to do any thing , but to observe every thing ; and who , upon that account , are often capable of combining together the ...
第 93 頁
... trade , their mutual competition naturally tends to lower its profit ; and when there is a like increase of stock in all the different trades carried on in the same society , the same competition must produce the same effect in them all ...
... trade , their mutual competition naturally tends to lower its profit ; and when there is a like increase of stock in all the different trades carried on in the same society , the same competition must produce the same effect in them all ...
第 95 頁
... trade in a great town than in a country village . The great stocks employed in every branch of trade , and the number of rich competitors , generally reduce the rate of profit in the former below what it is in the latter . But the wages ...
... trade in a great town than in a country village . The great stocks employed in every branch of trade , and the number of rich competitors , generally reduce the rate of profit in the former below what it is in the latter . But the wages ...
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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...