An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsP.F. Collier & Sons, 1909 - 590 頁 |
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第 52 頁
... capital of which he oversees the management ; and the owner of this capital , though he is thus discharged of almost all labour , still ex- pects that his profits should bear a regular proportion to his capital . In the price of ...
... capital of which he oversees the management ; and the owner of this capital , though he is thus discharged of almost all labour , still ex- pects that his profits should bear a regular proportion to his capital . In the price of ...
第 54 頁
... capital which employs the weavers , for example , must be greater than that which employs the spinners ; because it not only replaces that capital with its profits , but pays , besides , the wages of the weavers ; and the profits must ...
... capital which employs the weavers , for example , must be greater than that which employs the spinners ; because it not only replaces that capital with its profits , but pays , besides , the wages of the weavers ; and the profits must ...
第 99 頁
... capital stock of Great Britain was not diminished even by the enormous expence of the late war . The diminution of the capital stock of the society , or of the funds destined for the maintenance of industry , however , as it lowers the ...
... capital stock of Great Britain was not diminished even by the enormous expence of the late war . The diminution of the capital stock of the society , or of the funds destined for the maintenance of industry , however , as it lowers the ...
第 107 頁
... capital laid out upon it , with at least the ordinary profits . A man educated at the expence of much labour and time to any of those employments which require extraordinary dexterity and skill , may be compared to one of those ...
... capital laid out upon it , with at least the ordinary profits . A man educated at the expence of much labour and time to any of those employments which require extraordinary dexterity and skill , may be compared to one of those ...
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第 334 頁 - I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
第 129 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 426 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. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it.
第 3 頁 - ... Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. 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...
第 121 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 12 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 selflove, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.
第 5 頁 - ... the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
第 44 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 118 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 211 頁 - ... the interest of the public. The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufacture, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers. To widen the market may frequently be agreeable enough to the interest of the public ; but to narrow the competition must always be against...