An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1Mundell, Doig, and Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1809 - Economics |
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... Messance , receiver of the tailles in the election of St. Etienne , endeavours to shew that the poor do more work in cheap than in dear years , by comparing the quantity and value of the goods made upon those different occasions in ...
... Messance , receiver of the tailles in the election of St. Etienne , endeavours to shew that the poor do more work in cheap than in dear years , by comparing the quantity and value of the goods made upon those different occasions in ...
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... Messance , and the author of the Essay on the police of grain . But in France , till 1764 , the exportation of grain was by law prohibited ; and it is somewhat difficult to suppose , that nearly the same diminution of price which took ...
... Messance , and the author of the Essay on the police of grain . But in France , till 1764 , the exportation of grain was by law prohibited ; and it is somewhat difficult to suppose , that nearly the same diminution of price which took ...
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... Messance and by Mr. Du- prè de S. Maur . The evidence is more complete than could well have been expected in a matter which is naturally so very difficult to be ascertained . As to the high price of corn during these last 36 B. I. RENT ...
... Messance and by Mr. Du- prè de S. Maur . The evidence is more complete than could well have been expected in a matter which is naturally so very difficult to be ascertained . As to the high price of corn during these last 36 B. I. RENT ...
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Page 177 - 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.
Page 19 - It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.
Page 75 - The market price of every particular commodity is regulated by the proportion between the quantity which is actually brought to market, and the demand of those who are willing to pay the natural price of the commodity...
Page 167 - 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...
Page 21 - The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.
Page 66 - 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.
Page 134 - THE whole of the advantages and disadvantages of the different employments of labour and stock* must, in the same neighbourhood, be either perfectly equal, or continually tending to equality.
Page 18 - Whether this propensity be one of those original principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given; or whether, as seems more probable, it be the necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to our present subject to enquire.
Page 14 - Each individual becomes more expert in his own peculiar branch, more work is done upon the whole, and the quantity of science is considerably increased by it.
Page 2 - ... than the greater part of those who work; yet the produce of the whole labour of the society is so great, that all are often abundantly supplied, and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniences of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.