 | Harry Earl Montgomery - 1911 - 460 стор.
...states his views as follows: "Consumable commodities are either necessaries or luxuries. By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. . . . All other things I call luxuries." Professor Ely's conception is that "luxuries are things which... | |
 | Lewis Henry Haney - 1911 - 598 стор.
...V, Chap. II, art. iii (Cannan's ed., p. 348). 4 Bk. I, Chap. VIII (Cannan's ed., p. 71, et passim). the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without." 1 While he argued that in Great Britain wages were considerably above the subsistence level, yet he... | |
 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - 1923 - 352 стор.
...The price of necessaries determines the minium rate of wages : by ' necessaries ' being understood ' whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without'.2 The ' standard of comfort ' theory begins to emerge. The So also does the wages-fund theory.... | |
 | 1974 - 260 стор.
...been put forward by many social scientists in the past. For example, Adam Smith wrote, 'By necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably...people, even of the lowest order, to be without', The Wealth of Nations, Book 5, Chapter 2, Part I, 1776. 4 B. Seebohm Rowntree, Poverty: A Study of... | |
 | Adam Smith - 2008 - 1148 стор.
...country cannot decently renders it indecent for creditable people, even of go without. tjie jowest orderj to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly...lived, I suppose, very comfortably, though they had no linen.1 But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe, a creditable day-labourer would... | |
 | United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare - 1976 - 202 стор.
...look at poverty as a comparative state. Adam Smith in 1776 (Wealth of Nations) wrote: By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably...the support of life, but whatever the custom of the century renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. By the... | |
 | United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare - 1976 - 200 стор.
...commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the century renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. By the 20th century, this view of poverty as a comparative state gained considerable support in the... | |
 | 2000 - 240 стор.
...in 1 776, social scientists have linked poverty to the want of "necessities," which Smith defined as "not only the commodities which are indispensably...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." This minimum standard of living is usually translated into a dollar level, such as the poverty line.... | |
 | Kath Woodward, Open University - 2000 - 180 стор.
...founding father of economics, put it this way: 'By necessaries I understand not only the commodities that are indispensably necessary for the support of life,...country renders it indecent for creditable people, even the lowest orders, to be without' ISmith. 1776. quoted in Sen, 1981I. Ideas of what it is to be poor... | |
 | 2000 - 724 стор.
...Bk. I, Chap. X, part ii, ,jd argument (Canaan's ed., p. 136). By " necessaries " Smith understood " whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." l While he argued that in Great Britain wages were considerably above the subsistence level, yet he... | |
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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. 
