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Side 25
Each animal is still obliged to support and defend itself , separately and inde .
pendently , and derives no fort of advantage from that variety of talents with which
nature has distinguished its fellows . Among men , on the contrary , the most ...
Each animal is still obliged to support and defend itself , separately and inde .
pendently , and derives no fort of advantage from that variety of talents with which
nature has distinguished its fellows . Among men , on the contrary , the most ...
Side 27
The employments of the latter are still more various . It is impossible there should
be such a trade as even that of a nailer in the remote and inland parts of the
Highlands of Scotland . Such a workman at the rate of a thousand nails a day ,
and ...
The employments of the latter are still more various . It is impossible there should
be such a trade as even that of a nailer in the remote and inland parts of the
Highlands of Scotland . Such a workman at the rate of a thousand nails a day ,
and ...
Side 37
The operation of affaying is still more difficult , ftill more tedious , and , unless a
part of the metal is fairly melted in the crucible , with proper dissolvents , any
conclusion that can be drawn from it , is extremely uncertain . Before the
institution of ...
The operation of affaying is still more difficult , ftill more tedious , and , unless a
part of the metal is fairly melted in the crucible , with proper dissolvents , any
conclusion that can be drawn from it , is extremely uncertain . Before the
institution of ...
Side 43
I am always willing to run fome hazard of being tedious in order to be sure that I
am perspicuous ; and after taking the utmost pains that I can to be perspicuous ,
some obscurity may still appear to remain upon a subject in its own nature ...
I am always willing to run fome hazard of being tedious in order to be sure that I
am perspicuous ; and after taking the utmost pains that I can to be perspicuous ,
some obscurity may still appear to remain upon a subject in its own nature ...
Side 50
... discovery of the mines of America dimi . nished the value of gold and silver in
Europe . This diminution , it is commonly supposed , though I apprehend without
any certain proof , is still going on gradually , and is likely to continue to do fo for
a ...
... discovery of the mines of America dimi . nished the value of gold and silver in
Europe . This diminution , it is commonly supposed , though I apprehend without
any certain proof , is still going on gradually , and is likely to continue to do fo for
a ...
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The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nations Adam Smith Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1811 |
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Side 26 - The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What every thing is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it or exchange it for something else, is the toil and trouble which it can save to himself, and which it can impose upon other people.
Side 10 - But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and show them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them.
Side 126 - 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. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbour, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.
Side 24 - The things which have the greatest value in use have frequently little or no value in exchange; and, on the contrary, those which have the greatest value in exchange have frequently little or no value in use.
Side 26 - The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities.
Side 65 - The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating. Different accidents may sometimes keep them suspended a good deal above it, and sometimes force them down even somewhat below it. But whatever may be the obstacles which hinder them from settling in this center of repose and continuance, they are constantly tending towards it.
Side 10 - It is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals, which seem to know neither this nor any other species of contracts.
Side 10 - As it is the power of exchanging that gives occasion to the division of labour, so the extent of this division must always be limited by the extent of that power, or, in other words, by the extent of the market.
Side 138 - 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. It is impossible, indeed, to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies, much less to render them necessary.
Side 6 - The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.
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| Tittel | The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nations Volum 2 av The Works of Adam Smith, Adam Smith |
| Forfatter | Adam Smith |
| Utgiver | T. Cadell, 1812 |
| Original fra | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisert | 6. mai 2008 |
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