An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 第 1 巻A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1789 |
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afford almoſt annual bank becauſe beſt buſineſs cafe capital cattle cauſe CHAP circulating capital circulation circumſtances coin commodities commonly confiderable confumed conſequence coſt courſe cultivation demand diminiſh diſpoſed diſtant diviſion of labour employed employment Engliſh equal eſtabliſhed Europe exchange expence faid fame feems feldom firſt fome foon fuch fufficient fuperior gold and filver improvement increaſe induſtry intereſt itſelf labour land landlord laſt leſs manufactures maſter meaſure money price moſt muſt natural natural price neceſſarily neceſſary obſerved occafion ounce pariſh pence perſon pounds preſent produce profits of ſtock proportion proviſions purchaſe purpoſe quantity of labour raiſe reaſon rent revenue riſe ſame ſcarce ſcarcity Scotland ſeems ſeveral ſhall ſhillings ſhould ſmall ſmaller ſociety ſome ſometimes ſomewhat ſpecies ſtandard ſtate ſtatute ſtill ſtock ſubſiſtence ſuch ſum ſupply ſuppoſed theſe thoſe tion trade uſe uſual value of filver wages of labour wheat whole workmen ΧΙ воок
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12 ページ - ... the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
21 ページ - But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and show them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them.
42 ページ - The things which have the greatest value in use have frequently little or no value in exchange; and, on the contrary, those which have the greatest value in exchange have frequently little or no value in use. Nothing is more useful than water: but it will purchase scarce anything; scarce anything can be had in exchange for it.
44 ページ - The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What every thing is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it or exchange it for something else, is the toil and trouble which it can save to himself, and which it can impose upon other people.
7 ページ - But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades.
8 ページ - But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day...
22 ページ - ... for them. The greater part of his occasional wants are supplied in the same manner as those of other people, by treaty, by barter, and by purchase. With the money which one man gives him he purchases food. The old cloaths which another bestows upon him he exchanges for other old cloaths which suit him better, or for lodging, or for food, or for money, with which he can buy either food, cloaths, or lodging, as he has occasion.
83 ページ - The commodity is then sold precisely for what it is worth, or for what it really costs the person who brings it to market; for though in common language what is called the prime cost of any commodity does not comprehend the profit of the person who is to sell it again, yet if he sells it at a price which does not allow him the ordinary rate of profit in his...
26 ページ - As it is the power of exchanging that gives occasion to the division of labour, so the extent of this division must always be limited by the extent of that power, or, in other words, by the extent of the market.
20 ページ - It is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals, which seem to know neither this nor any other species of contracts.