An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1G. Walker, 1822 - 47 páginas |
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... pounds of pins in a day . There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size . Those ten persons , therefore , could make among them upwards of forty - eight thousand pins in a day . Each person , therefore , making a ...
... pounds of pins in a day . There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size . Those ten persons , therefore , could make among them upwards of forty - eight thousand pins in a day . Each person , therefore , making a ...
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... pound weight of pure silver , or pure copper , might receive in ex- change for their goods an adulterated composi- tion of the coarsest and cheapest materials , which had , however , in their outward appearance , been made to resemble ...
... pound weight of pure silver , or pure copper , might receive in ex- change for their goods an adulterated composi- tion of the coarsest and cheapest materials , which had , however , in their outward appearance , been made to resemble ...
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... pound of good copper . It was divided in the same manner as our Troyes pound , into twelve ounces , each of which contained a real ounce of good copper . The English pound sterling in the time of Edward I. contained a pound Tower weight ...
... pound of good copper . It was divided in the same manner as our Troyes pound , into twelve ounces , each of which contained a real ounce of good copper . The English pound sterling in the time of Edward I. contained a pound Tower weight ...
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... pound on the other , seems not to have been so constant and uniform as that between the penny and the pound . During the first race of the kings of France , the French sou or shilling appears upon different occasions to have contained ...
... pound on the other , seems not to have been so constant and uniform as that between the penny and the pound . During the first race of the kings of France , the French sou or shilling appears upon different occasions to have contained ...
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... pound and penny about a thirty - sixth ; and the French pound and penny about a sixty - sixth part of their original value . By means of those ope- rations the princes and sovereign states which per- formed them were enabled , in ...
... pound and penny about a thirty - sixth ; and the French pound and penny about a sixty - sixth part of their original value . By means of those ope- rations the princes and sovereign states which per- formed them were enabled , in ...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Parte1 Adam Smith Vista completa - 1901 |
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1 Adam Smith Vista completa - 1910 |
An Inqury Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1 Adam Smith Vista completa - 1801 |
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Página 200 - 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.
Página 188 - 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 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 7 - But in the way in which this business in now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head...
Página 19 - ... without the assistance and co-operation of many thousands, the very meanest person in a civilized country could not be provided, even according to what we very falsely imagine, the easy and simple manner in which he is commonly accommodated.
Página 74 - 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.
Página 183 - 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.
Página 72 - In this state of things, the whole produce of labour belongs to the labourer; and the quantity of labour commonly employed in acquiring or producing any commodity is the only circumstance which can regulate the quantity of labour which it ought commonly to purchase, command, or exchange for. As soon as stock has accumulated in the hands of particular persons, some of them will naturally employ it in setting to work industrious people, whom they will supply with materials and subsistence, in order...
Página 484 - The gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to market all the grass and corn of the country, produces itself not a single pile of either.
Página 423 - ... into three parts; the rent of land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock: and constitutes a revenue to three different orders of people; to those who live by rent...