An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 第 1 卷Mundell, Doig, and Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1809 |
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... cattle or for venison with his companions ; and he finds at last that he can in this manner get more cat- tle and venison , than if he himself went to the field to catch them . From a regard to his own interest , therefore , the making ...
... cattle or for venison with his companions ; and he finds at last that he can in this manner get more cat- tle and venison , than if he himself went to the field to catch them . From a regard to his own interest , therefore , the making ...
第 30 頁
... cattle are said to have been the common instrument of commerce ; and , though they must have been a most inconvenient one , yet in old times we find things were frequently valued according to the number of cattle which had been given in ...
... cattle are said to have been the common instrument of commerce ; and , though they must have been a most inconvenient one , yet in old times we find things were frequently valued according to the number of cattle which had been given in ...
第 31 頁
... cattle to give in exchange for it , must have been obliged to buy salt to the value of a whole ox , or a whole sheep , at a time . He could seldom buy less than this , because what he was to give for it could seldom be divided without ...
... cattle to give in exchange for it , must have been obliged to buy salt to the value of a whole ox , or a whole sheep , at a time . He could seldom buy less than this , because what he was to give for it could seldom be divided without ...
第 67 頁
... cattle employed in producing it , and the third pays the profit of the farmer . These three parts seem either immediately or ultimately to make up the whole price of corn . A fourth part , it may perhaps be thought , is necessary for ...
... cattle employed in producing it , and the third pays the profit of the farmer . These three parts seem either immediately or ultimately to make up the whole price of corn . A fourth part , it may perhaps be thought , is necessary for ...
第 153 頁
... meat frequently as cheap . It costs no more to bring grocery goods to the great town than to the country village ; but it costs a great deal more to bring corn and cattle , as the greater part of them CH . X. 159 IN DIFFERENT EMPLOYMENTS .
... meat frequently as cheap . It costs no more to bring grocery goods to the great town than to the country village ; but it costs a great deal more to bring corn and cattle , as the greater part of them CH . X. 159 IN DIFFERENT EMPLOYMENTS .
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第 177 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 19 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 self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.
第 75 頁 - The market price of every particular commodity is regulated by the proportion between the quantity which is actually brought to market, and the demand of those who are willing to pay the natural price of the commodity...
第 167 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. The patrimony of a poor man...
第 21 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 66 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 134 頁 - THE whole of the advantages and disadvantages of the different employments of labour and stock* must, in the same neighbourhood, be either perfectly equal, or continually tending to equality.
第 18 頁 - Whether this propensity be one of those original principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given; or whether, as seems more probable, it be the necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to our present subject to enquire.
第 14 頁 - Each individual becomes more expert in his own peculiar branch, more work is done upon the whole, and the quantity of science is considerably increased by it.
第 2 頁 - ... than the greater part of those who work; yet the produce of the whole labour of the society is so great, that all are often abundantly supplied, and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniences of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.