An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsP.F. Collier & Sons, 1909 - 590 頁 |
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第 7 頁
... necessary expences of the sovereign , or commonwealth ; which of those expences ought to be defrayed by the general contribution of the whole society ; and which of them , by that of some particular part only , or of some particular ...
... necessary expences of the sovereign , or commonwealth ; which of those expences ought to be defrayed by the general contribution of the whole society ; and which of them , by that of some particular part only , or of some particular ...
第 10 頁
... necessary machinery , they could , when they exerted them- selves , make among them about twelve 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 ...
... necessary machinery , they could , when they exerted them- selves , make among them about twelve 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 ...
第 11 頁
... necessary to produce any one complete manu- facture , is almost always divided among a great number of hands . How many different trades are employed in each branch of the linen and woollen manufactures , from the growers of the flax ...
... necessary to produce any one complete manu- facture , is almost always divided among a great number of hands . How many different trades are employed in each branch of the linen and woollen manufactures , from the growers of the flax ...
第 31 頁
... necessary . Yet we should find it excessively troublesome , if every time a poor man had ' occasion either to buy or sell a farthing's worth of goods , he was obliged to weigh the farthing . The operation of assay- ing is still more ...
... necessary . Yet we should find it excessively troublesome , if every time a poor man had ' occasion either to buy or sell a farthing's worth of goods , he was obliged to weigh the farthing . The operation of assay- ing is still more ...
第 42 頁
... necessary of life . The average or ordinary price of corn again is regulated , as I shall likewise endeavour to show hereafter , by the value of silver , by the richness or barrenness of the mines which supply the market with that metal ...
... necessary of life . The average or ordinary price of corn again is regulated , as I shall likewise endeavour to show hereafter , by the value of silver , by the richness or barrenness of the mines which supply the market with that metal ...
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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...