 | Richard Berthoud - 2004 - 60 стор.
...(20(i2). They quote Adam Smith as the authority for a national relative view of poverty: By necessity I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably...people, even of the lowest order, to be without.... Custom has rendered leather shoes a necessary of life in England. The poorest creditable person of... | |
 | Olena Hankivsky - 2004 - 196 стор.
...approach to value choices resonates with Adam Smith's definition of a "necessary": "by necessities I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without."120 As one participant in the Romanow Commission explained: "For my husband, the war against... | |
 | Nicholas Deakin, Catherine Jones Finer, Bob Matthews - 2004 - 400 стор.
...dress' was 'conventionally' necessary."0 Over a century previously, Adam Smith had said, 'By necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without'.21 In our own day there is everything to be said for returning unashamedly to the broad theoretical... | |
 | Myles J. Kelleher - 2004 - 346 стор.
...1776, Adam Smith tempered his definition of poverty as "want of necessities" with the qualification "not only the commodities which are indispensably...creditable people, even of the lowest order to be without."5 In a country as wealthy as the United States, the fact that people are not starving, freezing,... | |
 | Deen K. Chatterjee - 2004 - 308 стор.
...possess those things. No one has improved on Adam Smith's formulation of the point: By necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably...country renders it indecent for creditable people, even the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary... | |
 | Martha Craven Nussbaum - 2004 - 440 стор.
...therefore consider more positive remedies. Chapter 6 Protecting Citizens from Shame By necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably...country renders it indecent for creditable people ... to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The... | |
 | Samuel Fleischacker - 2009 - 352 стор.
...economic growth. By "necessaries," he says, he means not only whatever is physically needed to survive "but whatever the custom of the country renders it...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without" (WN 870). Linen shirts were not necessary in ancient Greece and Rome. Throughout most of Europe in... | |
 | Mark Robert Rank - 2004 - 376 стор.
...in his treatise, Wealth of Nations (1776}. Smith defined poverty as a lack of those necessities that "the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." This type of definition is known as an absolute approach. One defines a minimum threshold for living... | |
 | William Aiken, John Haldane - 2004 - 284 стор.
...Proponents of the capability approach quote the following passage from Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations: A linen shirt, for example, is strictly speaking, not a necessary of life... But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe, a credible day-labourer would be ashamed... | |
 | Michael Common, Sigrid Stagl - 2005 - 600 стор.
...founding father of economics, Adam Smith, as writing in the eighteenth century that: 'By necessities I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably...people, even of the lowest order, to be without.' In the essay on the virtues of economic growth cited in section 6.4.1, Keynes distinguished between... | |
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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. 
