The Principles of Political Economy: With a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the ScienceA. Murray and son, 1870 - 360 стор. |
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accumulation Adam Smith advantage agriculture borrow bullion bushel capitalists carried cause circumstances classes clipped money coin commerce commodities produced compared consequence consumed consumption corn cost crown cultivation debts demand denomination diminished dities division of labour effect employed employment England exchangeable value expence exportation fall foreign four per cent greater Holland improvement increase individual interest labour required land less lessen machinery machines manufactures means melted merchant milled money modities nation natural necessary obtain occasion ounce of silver paid pence plain Political Economy population portion principle produce of industry proportion publick purchase quantity of labour quantity of silver quarters raised rate of profit rate of wages raw produce real value reduced regulated rent rise sell shillings society soils species standard silver subsistence supply suppose thing tillage tion trade value of money vent wealth Wealth of Nations weight wheat worth yield
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Сторінка 74 - The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Сторінка 181 - By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without.
Сторінка 84 - 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.
Сторінка 93 - Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for ; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what 'comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs. He supplies them abundantly with what they have occasion for, and they accommodate him as amply with what he has occasion for, and a general plenty diffuses itself through...
Сторінка 213 - In the same class must be ranked, some both of the gravest and most important, and some of the most frivolous professions: churchmen, lawyers, physicians, men of letters of all kinds; players, buffoons, musicians, opera-singers, opera-dancers, &c.
Сторінка 24 - The ordinary means therefore to increase our wealth and treasure is by foreign trade, wherein we must ever observe this rule; to sell more to strangers yearly than we consume of theirs in value.
Сторінка 40 - Labour was the first price, the original purchasemoney that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased...
Сторінка 64 - In the whole interval which separates these two moments, there is scarce, perhaps, a single instant in which any man is so perfectly and completely satisfied with his situation as to be without any wish of alteration or improvement of any kind. An augmentation of fortune is the means by which the greater part of men propose and wish to better their condition.
Сторінка 140 - If among a nation of hunters, for example, it usually costs twice the labour to kill a beaver which it does to kill a deer, one beaver should naturally exchange for or be worth two deer. It is natural that what is usually the produce of two days or two hours labour should be worth double of what is usually the produce of one day's or one hour's labour.
Сторінка 152 - The exchangeable value of all commodities, whether they be manufactured, or the produce of the mines, or the produce of land, is always regulated, not by the less quantity of labour that will suffice for their production under circumstances highly...