The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nationsT. Cadell, 1811 |
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... capital , or for renewing the provifions , mate- rials , and finished work , which had been with- drawn from a capital ; the other for conftituting a revenue either to the owner of this capital , as the profit of his ftock ; or to fome ...
... capital , or for renewing the provifions , mate- rials , and finished work , which had been with- drawn from a capital ; the other for conftituting a revenue either to the owner of this capital , as the profit of his ftock ; or to fome ...
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... capital of the undertaker of the work ; the other pays his profit , and thus con- ftitutes a revenue to the owner of this capital . That part of the annual produce of the land and labour of any country which replaces a capi- tal , never ...
... capital of the undertaker of the work ; the other pays his profit , and thus con- ftitutes a revenue to the owner of this capital . That part of the annual produce of the land and labour of any country which replaces a capi- tal , never ...
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... capital he maintains induftrious people only , yet by his expence , that is , by the employment of his revenue , he feeds commonly the very fame fort as the great lord . The proportion , therefore , between the pro- ductive and ...
... capital he maintains induftrious people only , yet by his expence , that is , by the employment of his revenue , he feeds commonly the very fame fort as the great lord . The proportion , therefore , between the pro- ductive and ...
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... capital by the great employment which they afford it ; and the employment of this capital is the cause of the industry of those two cities . In the other parliament towns of France , very little more capital feems to be employed that ...
... capital by the great employment which they afford it ; and the employment of this capital is the cause of the industry of those two cities . In the other parliament towns of France , very little more capital feems to be employed that ...
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... capital . The idleness of the greater part of the people who are maintained by the expence of revenue , corrupts , it is probable , the industry of those who ought to be maintained by the employment of capital , and renders it lefs ...
... capital . The idleness of the greater part of the people who are maintained by the expence of revenue , corrupts , it is probable , the industry of those who ought to be maintained by the employment of capital , and renders it lefs ...
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Página 123 - ... every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it.
Página 1 - THERE is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed: there is another which has no such effect. The former, as it produces a value, may be called productive; the latter, unproductive labour.
Página 123 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security ; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain; and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 16 - It tends therefore to increase the exchangeable value of the annual produce of the land and labour of the country. It puts into motion an additional quantity of industry, which gives an additional value to the annual produce.
Página 336 - It is a very singular government in which every member of the administration wishes to get out of the country, and consequently to have done with the government, as soon as he can, and to whose interest, the day after he has left it and carried his whole fortune with him,* it is perfectly indifferent though the whole country was swallowed up by an earthquake.
Página 125 - Whether the advantages which one country has over another be natural or acquired, is in this respect of no consequence. As long as the one country has those advantages, and the other wants them, it will always be more advantageous for the latter rather to buy of the former than to make.
Página 125 - What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.
Página 22 - The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived...
Página 35 - The capital employed in agriculture, therefore, not only puts into motion a greater quantity of productive labour than any equal capital employed in manufactures, but, in proportion too to the quantity of productive labour which it employs, it adds a much greater value to the annual produce of the land and labour of the country, to the real wealth and revenue of its inhabitants. Of all the ways in which a capital can be employed, it is by far the most advantageous to the society.
Página 146 - Commerce, which ought naturally to be, among nations as among individuals, a bond of union and friendship, has become the most fertile source of discord and animosity.