An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsP. F. Collier & son, 1909 - 590 頁 |
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第 57 頁
... dealer may sometimes sell his goods , it is the lowest at which he is likely to sell them for any considerable time ; at least where there is perfect liberty , or where he may change his trade as often as he pleases . The actual price ...
... dealer may sometimes sell his goods , it is the lowest at which he is likely to sell them for any considerable time ; at least where there is perfect liberty , or where he may change his trade as often as he pleases . The actual price ...
第 58 頁
... dealers obliges them all to accept of this price , but does not oblige them to accept of less . The quantity of every commodity brought to market naturally suits itself to the effectual demand . It is the interest of all those who ...
... dealers obliges them all to accept of this price , but does not oblige them to accept of less . The quantity of every commodity brought to market naturally suits itself to the effectual demand . It is the interest of all those who ...
第 59 頁
... dealers will soon prompt them to employ more labour and stock in preparing and bringing it to market . The quantity brought thither will soon be sufficient to supply the effectual demand . All the different parts of its price will soon ...
... dealers will soon prompt them to employ more labour and stock in preparing and bringing it to market . The quantity brought thither will soon be sufficient to supply the effectual demand . All the different parts of its price will soon ...
第 118 頁
... extremely fluctuating . But the profit of some of the dealers must necessarily fluctuate with the price of the commodities . The opera- tions of the speculative merchant are principally employed about such 118 WEALTH OF NATIONS.
... extremely fluctuating . But the profit of some of the dealers must necessarily fluctuate with the price of the commodities . The opera- tions of the speculative merchant are principally employed about such 118 WEALTH OF NATIONS.
第 145 頁
... dealers , by rating the price both of provisions and other goods . The assize of bread is , so far as I know , the only remnant of this ancient usage . Where there is an exclusive corpora- tion , it may perhaps be proper to regulate the ...
... dealers , by rating the price both of provisions and other goods . The assize of bread is , so far as I know , the only remnant of this ancient usage . Where there is an exclusive corpora- tion , it may perhaps be proper to regulate the ...
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第 311 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 107 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 422 頁 - ... the duty of erecting and maintaining certain public works and certain public institutions, which it can never be for the interest of any individual, or small number of individuals, to erect and maintain; because the profit could never repay the expense to any individual or small number of individuals, though it may frequently do much more than repay it to a great society.
第 400 頁 - Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
第 13 頁 - This great increase of the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
第 312 頁 - What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.
第 100 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 95 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 26 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.