An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, כרך 1Clarendon Press, 1880 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Adam Smith advantage afford agriculture ancient annual produce bank Bank of England bullion butcher's-meat cattle cent century circulating capital coin commerce commodities commonly consumed consumption continually dealers division of labour effect employed employment England Europe exchange expense exportation farmer fertile foreign France frequently gold and silver greater quantity increase industry land and labour landlord less maintain manner manufactures master merchant mines money price natural price naturally necessarily necessary occasion ordinary ounce paid paper money particular perhaps Peru pound weight pounds precious metals present price of corn price of labour productive labour profits of stock proportion proprietor purchase quantity of labour quantity of silver raise rate of profit real price regulated rent revenue rise rude produce Scotland seems seignorage seldom sestertii shillings society sometimes sort subsistence sufficient supply tillage town trade United Kingdom value of silver wages of labour wealth Wealth of Nations whole workmen
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 3 - The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
עמוד 9 - 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...
עמוד 130 - 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.
עמוד 354 - It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.
עמוד 395 - The experience of all ages and nations, I believe, demonstrates that the work done by slaves, though it appears to cost only their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any. A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much and to labour as little as possible.
עמוד 17 - 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. Whoever offers to another a bargain of any kind, proposes to do this. Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want...
עמוד 54 - 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.
עמוד 336 - 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.
עמוד 33 - 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.
עמוד 348 - An augmentation of fortune is the means by which the greater part of men propose and wish to better their condition. It is the means the most vulgar and the most obvious...