An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 第 2 卷J. Maynard, 1811 |
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... proportion as labour comes to be more and more subdivided ; and as the operations of each workman are gradually reduced to a greater degree of simplicity , a variety of new machines come to be invented for facilitating and abridging ...
... proportion as labour comes to be more and more subdivided ; and as the operations of each workman are gradually reduced to a greater degree of simplicity , a variety of new machines come to be invented for facilitating and abridging ...
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... proportion to the extent of his stock , or to the number of people whom it can employ . The quantity of industry , therefore , not only increases in every country with the increase of the stock which employs it , but , in consequence of ...
... proportion to the extent of his stock , or to the number of people whom it can employ . The quantity of industry , therefore , not only increases in every country with the increase of the stock which employs it , but , in consequence of ...
第 14 頁
... proportion to the extent and proper application of the capitals employed about them . When the capitals are equal , and equally well applied , it is in proportion to their natural fertility . In all countries where there is a tolerable ...
... proportion to the extent and proper application of the capitals employed about them . When the capitals are equal , and equally well applied , it is in proportion to their natural fertility . In all countries where there is a tolerable ...
第 16 頁
... and amuse- ments . His real wealth is in proportion , not to his gross , but to his neat rent . The gross revenue of all the inhabitants of a great country comprehends the whole annual produce of their land and 16 B. II . OF MONEY .
... and amuse- ments . His real wealth is in proportion , not to his gross , but to his neat rent . The gross revenue of all the inhabitants of a great country comprehends the whole annual produce of their land and 16 B. II . OF MONEY .
第 22 頁
... proportion as this quantity is great orsmall , so are his real riches , his real weekly revenue . His weekly revenue is certainly not equal both to the guinea and to what can be purchased with it , but only to one or other of those two ...
... proportion as this quantity is great orsmall , so are his real riches , his real weekly revenue . His weekly revenue is certainly not equal both to the guinea and to what can be purchased with it , but only to one or other of those two ...
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第 236 頁 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of 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.
第 465 頁 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
第 198 頁 - Political oeconomy, considered as a branch of the science of a statesman or legislator, proposes two distinct objects: first, to provide a plentiful revenue or subsistence for the people, or more properly to enable them to provide such a revenue or subsistence for themselves; and secondly, to supply the state or commonwealth with a revenue sufficient for the public services. It proposes to enrich both the people and the sovereign.
第 236 頁 - What is the species of domestic industry which his capital can employ, and of which the produce is likely to be of the greatest value, every individual, it is evident, can, in his local situation, judge much better than any statesman or lawgiver can do for him.
第 469 頁 - To propose that Great Britain should voluntarily give up all authority over her colonies, and leave them to elect their own magistrates, to enact their own laws, and to make peace and war as they might think proper, would be to propose such a measure as never was, and never will be adopted by any nation in the world.
第 226 頁 - The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind.
第 10 頁 - ... 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...
第 246 頁 - There seem, however, to be two cases in which it will generally be advantageous to lay some burden upon foreign, for the encouragement of domestic industry. The first is, when some particular sort of industry is necessary for the defence of the country.
第 233 頁 - Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally or, rather, necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society.
第 481 頁 - Italy, there is not the least probability that the British constitution would be hurt by the union of Great Britain with her colonies. That constitution, on the contrary, would be completed by it, and seems to be imperfect without it.