 | Edwin Cannan - 1918 - 320 стор.
...So far, the returns to agricultural industry have steadily increased, and as Adam Smith remarks, " the desire of food is limited in every man by the narrow capacity of the human stomach." Consequently, the fact that it has become easier to produce food for the number of human beings which... | |
 | Zenas Clark Dickinson - 1922 - 328 стор.
...friend, the principle of ' insatiability of wants.' "The desire of food," as Adam Smith pointed out, " is limited in every man by the narrow capacity of the human stomach," : and similarly there seem to be rather narrow natural limits to our needs of other fundamental necessities.... | |
 | John Ernest Lattimer - 1926 - 802 стор.
...things to satisfy other wants. This is not only possible but necessary as it was pointed out long since that - "the desire of food is limited in every man...dress, equipage, and household furniture seems to have 8 no limit or certain boundary." 8. Smith, Adam, The Wealth of Nations, EP Button & Co., H.York, Everyman's... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1922 - 522 стор.
...cloathing, lodging, and 165 houshold furniture, is almost as great in quantity as it is in quality. The desire of food is limited in every man by the...conveniences and ornaments of building, dress, equipage, and houshold furniture, seems to have no limit or certain boundary. Those, therefore, who have the command... | |
 | John Earl Hutchison, James Jackson Naive, Sheldon Kwoh-ping Tsu - 1970 - 184 стор.
...AGRICULTURE NEC. ERS7667-70 (5) ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE III. — DEMAND: WHERE, HOW MUCH, AND WHY The desire of food is limited in every man by the narrow capacity of the human stomach. — Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations Wheat provides directly about 20 percent of the total food... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - 1989 - 254 стор.
...subsistence is concerned, all men are roughly equal: 'The rich. . .consume little more than the poor', for the 'desire of food is limited in every man by the narrow capacity of the human stomach'. 22 Much the same applies to all the necessities of nature: 'The wages of the meanest labourer can supply... | |
 | Josef Falkinger - 1986 - 234 стор.
...begrenzt. „The rieh man consumes no more than his poor neighbour", heißt es bei Smith und gleich darauf: „The desire of food is limited in every man by the...capacity of the human stomach; but the desire of the conveniencies and Ornaments of building, dress, equipage, and household furniture, seems to have no... | |
 | Michel Foucault - 1991 - 322 стор.
...needs not yet invented; a territory that extends indefinitely, the symbol of a market without limits: The desire of food is limited in every man by the narrow capacity of the human stomach; but . . . what is over and above satisfying the limited desire is given for the amusement of those desires... | |
 | Christopher Herbert - 1991 - 384 стор.
...desires move into ascendancy, they reveal their cardinal characCHAPTER TWO teristic of boundlessness. "The desire of food is limited in every man by the narrow capacity of the human stomach," says Smith; "but the desire of the conveniencies and ornaments of building, dress, equipage, and household... | |
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