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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第 65 頁
... supposed labour of inspection and direction . They are regulated altogether by the value of the stock employed , and are greater or smaller in proportion to the extent of this stock . Let us suppose , for exam- ple , that in some ...
... supposed labour of inspection and direction . They are regulated altogether by the value of the stock employed , and are greater or smaller in proportion to the extent of this stock . Let us suppose , for exam- ple , that in some ...
第 83 頁
... supposed , they will consent to give ; the other is the lowest which the sellers can commonly afford to take , and at the same time continue their business . The exclusive privileges of corporations , statutes of apprenticeship , and ...
... supposed , they will consent to give ; the other is the lowest which the sellers can commonly afford to take , and at the same time continue their business . The exclusive privileges of corporations , statutes of apprenticeship , and ...
第 84 頁
... supposed to com- mit the most horrid sacrilege if he changed it for an- other ) , which can in any particular employment , and for several generations together , sink either the wages of la- bour or the profits of stock below their ...
... supposed to com- mit the most horrid sacrilege if he changed it for an- other ) , which can in any particular employment , and for several generations together , sink either the wages of la- bour or the profits of stock below their ...
第 91 頁
... supposed no more than sufficient to provide for herself . But one half the children born , it is computed , die before the age of manhood . The poorest labourers , therefore , according to this account , must , one with another ...
... supposed no more than sufficient to provide for herself . But one half the children born , it is computed , die before the age of manhood . The poorest labourers , therefore , according to this account , must , one with another ...
第 94 頁
... 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 - and - twenty years . Nor in the present times is this increase principally owing to ...
... 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 - and - twenty years . Nor in the present times is this increase principally owing to ...
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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.