| Howard J. Ehrlich - 1996 - 406 стор.
...work than Ayn Rand or the Chicago economists or any of Smith's modern epigones. As Smith observed: "The understandings of the greater part of men are...formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations . . . has no occasion to exert his understanding.... | |
| Noam Chomsky - 1996 - 264 стор.
...of labour. Adopting standard Enlightenment ideas about freedom and creativity, Smith recognised that The understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments'. Hence: the man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too... | |
| Edward S. Reed - 1996 - 204 стор.
...nature. The passage is worth quoting at length: In the progress of the division of labour, the employment of the . . . great body of the people, comes to be confined to a very few simple operations; frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of... | |
| Lars Magnusson - 1997 - 264 стор.
...conduce to facility or perfection therein, are cultivated. In the progress of the division of labour, the employment of the far greater part of those who...two. But the understandings of the greater part of mankind are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in... | |
| Vincent Ostrom - 1997 - 358 стор.
...in which, as Adam Smith asserted, "progress of the division of labour" might yield a condition where "the far greater part of those who live by labour, that is, of the great body of the people . . . , generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become"... | |
| Patrick Murray - 1997 - 510 стор.
...narrow self-interest directs our daily business, what would be the consequences were Smith right that "the understandings of the greater part of men are...necessarily formed by their ordinary employments"? What made the upsurge of wealth in commercial societies possible? wonders Smith. He wastes no time... | |
| William E. Cole - 1998 - 174 стор.
...growing applications of machine technology in manufacturing. In the progress of the division of labour, the employment of the far greater part of those who...the greater part of men are necessarily formed by ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which... | |
| Wendy Motooka - 1998 - 302 стор.
...the division of labour," Smith wtires in a passage now famous, the employment of the fat grearer patt of those who live by labour, that is, of the great body of the people, comes to be confined to a vety few simple operations; frequenrly one or two. Bur the undersrandings of the grearer patt of men... | |
| Werner Stark - 1998 - 372 стор.
...the knights for the crusades was due to a desire on their part for additional fiefs. when he wrote: 'The understandings of the greater part of men are...necessarily formed by their ordinary employments.' 1 Of course, other factors than occupation may be pushed into the centre of the picture, for instance... | |
| David L. Prychitko - 1998 - 434 стор.
...remedied only through some kind of government intervention: In the progress of the division of labour, the employment of the far greater part of those who live by labour . . . comes to be confined to a few very simple operations; frequently to one or two. But the understandings... | |
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