Wealth of NationsCosimo, Inc., 2007 M11 1 - 596 páginas Adam Smith revolutionized economic theory with his 1776 work An Inquiry to the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. He proposed rules governing labor, supply, and demand; and describes division of labor, stockpiling of wealth, lending, and interest. Smith also discusses how economies lead to opulence. Wealth of Nations also offers a defense for free-market capitalism. This edition of Wealth of Nations is an abridged version edited by Harvard economics professor CHARLES JESSE BULLOCK (1869-1941) and published in 1901 by Harvard Classics, a series that offered the essential readings for anyone who wanted the functional equivalent of a liberal arts education. Any student of economics should be familiar with the concepts and laws that Smith developed, as much of economic theory is still based upon his work. Scottish economist and philosopher ADAM SMITH (1723-1790) helped set standards in the fields of political economics and moral philosophy, playing a key role in the early development of the scholarship of economics. His other writings include Essays on Philosophical Subjects. |
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... seems to depend more upon the former of those two circumstances than upon the latter . Among the savage nations of hunters and fishers , every individual who is able to work , is more or less employed in useful labour , and endeavours ...
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... seems to have been originally owing to the divi- sion of labour . Men are much more likely to discover easier and readier methods of attaining any object , when the whole attention of their minds is directed towards that single ob- ject ...
... seems to have been originally owing to the divi- sion of labour . Men are much more likely to discover easier and readier methods of attaining any object , when the whole attention of their minds is directed towards that single ob- ject ...
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... seems more probable , it be the neces- sary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech , it belongs not to our present subject to enquire . It is common to all men , and to be found in no other race of animals , which seem to ...
... seems more probable , it be the neces- sary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech , it belongs not to our present subject to enquire . It is common to all men , and to be found in no other race of animals , which seem to ...
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... seems to have been the first in which either agriculture or manufactures were cultivated and improved to any con ... seem to have afforded a com- munication by water - carriage , not only between all the great towns , but between all the ...
... seems to have been the first in which either agriculture or manufactures were cultivated and improved to any con ... seem to have afforded a com- munication by water - carriage , not only between all the great towns , but between all the ...
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... seems to have been something more than the Roman pound , and some- thing less than the Troyes pound . This last was not intro- duced into the mint of England till the 18th of Henry VIII . The French livre contained in the time of ...
... seems to have been something more than the Roman pound , and some- thing less than the Troyes pound . This last was not intro- duced into the mint of England till the 18th of Henry VIII . The French livre contained in the time of ...
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and Stock | 105 |
50 | 153 |
BOOK II | 221 |
Stock of the Society or of the Expence of Maintaining | 233 |
Of the Accumulation of Capital or of Productive and Unpro | 270 |
Of Restraints Upon the Importation from Foreign Countries | 348 |
Of the Extraordinary Restraints upon the Importation of Goods | 370 |
Of Drawbacks | 389 |
Of Treaties of Commerce | 407 |
Of Colonies | 414 |
Conclusion of the Mercantile System | 424 |
Of the Agricultural Systems or of the Systems of Political | 446 |
BOOK V | 468 |
Of Stock Lent at Interest | 291 |
Of the Different Employment of Capitals | 301 |
CHAP | 319 |
Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society | 489 |
Of Public Debts | 574 |
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Página 130 - 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.
Página 11 - 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...
Página 37 - Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased...
Página 21 - 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.
Página 113 - In a perfectly fair lottery, those who draw the prizes ought to gain all that is lost by those who draw the blanks. In a profession where twenty fail for one that succeeds, that one ought to gain all that should have been gained by the unsuccessful twenty.
Página 37 - EVERY man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.