An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsP. F. Collier & son, 1909 - 590 頁 |
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第 52 頁
... country , taken complexly , must resolve itself into the same three parts , and be parcelled out among different inhabitants of the country , either as the wages of their labour , the profits of their stock , or 52 WEALTH OF NATIONS.
... country , taken complexly , must resolve itself into the same three parts , and be parcelled out among different inhabitants of the country , either as the wages of their labour , the profits of their stock , or 52 WEALTH OF NATIONS.
第 72 頁
... inhabitants . In Great Britain , and most other European countries , they are not supposed to double in less than five hundred years . In the British colonies in North America , it has been found , that they double in twenty or five ...
... inhabitants . In Great Britain , and most other European countries , they are not supposed to double in less than five hundred years . In the British colonies in North America , it has been found , that they double in twenty or five ...
第 74 頁
... inhabitants in the country was reduced to what could easily be maintained by the revenue and stock which remained in it , and which had escaped either the tyranny or calamity which had destroyed the rest . This perhaps is nearly the ...
... inhabitants in the country was reduced to what could easily be maintained by the revenue and stock which remained in it , and which had escaped either the tyranny or calamity which had destroyed the rest . This perhaps is nearly the ...
第 114 頁
... inhabitants , and the narrowness of the market may not admit the employment of a larger capital in the business . The man , however , must not only live by his trade , but live by it suitably to the qualifications which it requires ...
... inhabitants , and the narrowness of the market may not admit the employment of a larger capital in the business . The man , however , must not only live by his trade , but live by it suitably to the qualifications which it requires ...
第 123 頁
... inhabitants , and the number of people frequently not being sufficient to supply each with a particular set of hands . By a strict interpretation of the words , too , the operation of this statute has been limited to those trades which ...
... inhabitants , and the number of people frequently not being sufficient to supply each with a particular set of hands . By a strict interpretation of the words , too , the operation of this statute has been limited to those trades which ...
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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.