 is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences and amusements of human life .... the far greater part of these he must derive from the labor of other people, and he must be rich or poor according...  The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review - Side 4101850Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1821 - 482 sider
...connected than they have sometimes been supposed to be. IT has been justly stated by Adam Smith, that a man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he...necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life. And it follows from this definition that, if the bounty of nature furnished all the necessaries, conveniences... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1822 - 578 sider
...chapter, book i. ch. v., on the real and nominal Price of Commodities^ opens in these words: " Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he...necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life." This definition does not please M. SAY ; he deems it incorrect as it regards individuals, and still... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1827 - 324 sider
...importance to it. He agrees entirely with Adam Smith in the following definition of riches: " Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniencies, and amusements of human life."* And adds an observation in which I think he is quite... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1827 - 322 sider
...importance to it. He agrees entirely with Adam Smith in the following definition of riches: " Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniencies, and amusements of human life."* And adds an observation in which I think he is quite... | |
 | William Orme - 1828 - 276 sider
...was not confined to material objects. Had Dr. Smith but remembered his own aphorism, that "every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he...enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of life;" and had he, by his usual train of reasoning, generalized this proposition, by applying to the... | |
 | William Orme - 1828 - 278 sider
...was not confined to material objects. Had Dr. Smith but remembered his own aphorism, that "every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he...enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of life;" and had he, by his usual train of reasoning, generalized this proposition, by applying to the... | |
 | William Orme - 1828 - 302 sider
...confined to maobjects. Had Dr. Smith but remembered his own aphorism, that "every man is rich or pool according to the degree in which he can afford to...enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of life;" and had he, by his usual train oi reasoning, generalized this proposition, by applying to the... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1829 - 688 sider
...more, although he may obtain double the quantity of riches. When Adam Smith says, that " every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he...necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life,"* he gives a just description of riches ; but when he goes on to say, that the man is rich or poor according... | |
 | British agriculturist - 1829 - 54 sider
...products of our colonies, &c. &c. Pursuant to Adam Smith's unexceptionable expression, " that a man is rich or " poor according to the degree in which...afford " to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amuse" ments of human life," the English labourer must be pronounced to be a more wealthy or a richer... | |
 | Pablo Pebrer - 1833 - 610 sider
...friendship, but even insult the laws of nature. In feet, if according to Smith's definition, " a man is rich or poor, according to the degree in which...enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of life ", highly increased prices, by diminishing the power of income, and consequently the facility... | |
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