An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsP.F. Collier & Sons, 1909 - 590 頁 |
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第 10 頁
... requires two or three distinct operations ; to put it on , is a peculiar business , to whiten the pins is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper ; and the important business of making a pin is , in this manner ...
... requires two or three distinct operations ; to put it on , is a peculiar business , to whiten the pins is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper ; and the important business of making a pin is , in this manner ...
第 19 頁
... of those whose service it requires . A puppy fawns upon its dam , and a spaniel endeavours by a thousand attractions to engage the attention of its master who is 19 Of the Principle Which Gives Occasion to the Division Labour.
... of those whose service it requires . A puppy fawns upon its dam , and a spaniel endeavours by a thousand attractions to engage the attention of its master who is 19 Of the Principle Which Gives Occasion to the Division Labour.
第 31 頁
... requires at least very accu- rate weights and scales . The weighing of gold in particular is an operation of some nicety . In the coarser metals , in- deed , where a small error would be of little consequence , less accuracy would , no ...
... requires at least very accu- rate weights and scales . The weighing of gold in particular is an operation of some nicety . In the coarser metals , in- deed , where a small error would be of little consequence , less accuracy would , no ...
第 47 頁
... require very different quantities of gold money ; a greater in the one case , and a smaller in the other . Silver would appear to be more invariable in its value than gold . Silver would appear to measure the value of gold , and gold ...
... require very different quantities of gold money ; a greater in the one case , and a smaller in the other . Silver would appear to be more invariable in its value than gold . Silver would appear to measure the value of gold , and gold ...
第 48 頁
... require , in all countries which possess no mines of their own , a continual importation , in order to repair this loss and this waste . The merchant importers , like all other merchants , we may believe , endeavour , as well as they ...
... require , in all countries which possess no mines of their own , a continual importation , in order to repair this loss and this waste . The merchant importers , like all other merchants , we may believe , endeavour , as well as they ...
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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...