An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1789 |
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... proportion of it is in any one year employed in maintaining unproductive hands , the more in the one cafe and the less in the other will remain for the productive , and the next year's produce will be greater or smaller accordingly ...
... proportion of it is in any one year employed in maintaining unproductive hands , the more in the one cafe and the less in the other will remain for the productive , and the next year's produce will be greater or smaller accordingly ...
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... proportion , therefore , between the pro- ductive and unproductive hands , depends very much in every country upon the proportion be- tween that part of the annual produce , which , as foon as it comes either from the ground or from the ...
... proportion , therefore , between the pro- ductive and unproductive hands , depends very much in every country upon the proportion be- tween that part of the annual produce , which , as foon as it comes either from the ground or from the ...
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... proportion to the extent , diminishes in proportion to the produce of the land . IN the opulent countries of Europe , great ca- pitals are at prefent employed in trade and ma- nufactures . In the ancient ftate , the little trade that ...
... proportion to the extent , diminishes in proportion to the produce of the land . IN the opulent countries of Europe , great ca- pitals are at prefent employed in trade and ma- nufactures . In the ancient ftate , the little trade that ...
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... proportion to the ftock the profits are generally much lefs . * THAT part of the annual produce , therefore , " which , as foon as it comes either from the ground , or from the hands of the productive labourers , is deftined for ...
... proportion to the ftock the profits are generally much lefs . * THAT part of the annual produce , therefore , " which , as foon as it comes either from the ground , or from the hands of the productive labourers , is deftined for ...
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... proportion to thofe which are likely to be employed in the maintenance of idleness , than they were two or three centuries ago . Our ancestors were idle for want of a fuffi- cient encouragement to induftry . It is better , fays the ...
... proportion to thofe which are likely to be employed in the maintenance of idleness , than they were two or three centuries ago . Our ancestors were idle for want of a fuffi- cient encouragement to induftry . It is better , fays the ...
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Página 175 - ... 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 175 - 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 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, is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.
Página 16 - Every increase or diminution of capital, therefore, naturally tends to increase or diminish the real quantity of industry, the number of productive hands, and consequently the exchangeable value of the annual produce of the land and labour of the country, the real wealth and revenue of all its inhabitants.
Página 19 - ... comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave.
Página 176 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
Página 162 - By opening a more extensive market for whatever part of the produce of their labour may exceed the home consumption, it encourages them to improve its productive powers, and to augment its annual produce to the utmost, and thereby to increase the real revenue and wealth of the society.
Página 438 - If it was adopted, however, Great Britain would not only be immediately freed from the whole annual expense of the peace establishment of the colonies, but might settle with them such a treaty of commerce as would effectually secure to her a free trade, more advantageous to the great body of the people, though less so to the merchants, than the monopoly which she at present enjoys.
Página 177 - 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 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.