...Lettres if A. Comte &J. S. Mill, p. 4. t Adam Smith knew better. " It appears, evidently from experience, that man is, of all sorts of luggage, the most difficult to be transported."—Wealth of Nations, Book I., c. viii. t Senior called him " the most incorrect writer...

...easy to secure a close approximation to equality of wnges. Adam Smith, in his day (1776), declared that man is, of all sorts of luggage, the most difficult to be transported. "A différence of prices, "he says, "which is not always sufficient to transport a man from one parish...

...ineptitude and inertia, which practically exclude them from the competitions of the world's industry." " Man is, of all sorts of luggage, the most difficult to be transported," was written by Adam Smith long ago ; and this stands in the way of really free and unhampered competition....

...been said of the levity and inconstancy of human nature, it appears evidently from experience that a man is of all sorts of luggage the most difficult to be transported. If the labouring poor, therefore, can maintain their families in those parts of the kingdom where the...

...assumption is necessary for the theory, and they make it unhesitatingly. Even Adam Smith, who has warned us that man is " of all sorts of luggage the most difficult to be transported," * forgets the significance of his own warning, and assumes that " the whole of the advantages and disadvantages...

...returns. What is its bearing on other economic theories and on practice? 14. Explain the following: (a) "Man is of all sorts of luggage the most difficult to be transported." (Adam Smith.) (b) "Value depends wholly on the relation between demand and supply." (Walker.) (c) "...

...for labour in the same sense in which there is so for goods freely produced and freely movable. "A man is of all sorts of luggage the most difficult to be transported " ; even unskilled labourers differ in different places, and even in these days of locomotives (and...

...when he approached the subject in another connection, it appeared " evident from experience that a man is, of all sorts of luggage, the most difficult to be transported."2 How much actual movement of labour there is from occupation to occupation is a matter...

...interchange of labor and capital between countries is never without friction. Adam Smith said that "a man is of all sorts of luggage the most difficult to be transported." The higher wages in a new country are sufficient to attract constantly from the older lands a portion...

...labor market is, however, more restricted than a goods market. As Adam Smith long ago remarked, ." a man is of all sorts of luggage the most difficult to be transported." The free movement of workers from positions where they are ill paid to positions where they are better...