 | Adam Smith - 1987 - 500 ページ
...arrived at the first natural cause and principle of the division of labour. You do indeed 4 doubt, 'whether this propensity be one of those original principles in human nature, of which no farther account can be given; or whether, as seems more probable, it be the necessary consequence of... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 872 ページ
...specifically with the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange. He left it open whether it is "one ofthose original principles in human nature, of which no further...necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech."8 To sum up: Smith underlined what in his opinion separates man from animals and was thus closer... | |
 | Arjo Klamer, Deirdre N. McCloskey, Robert M. Solow - 1988 - 332 ページ
...Nations, published in 1776, he is more cautious: The propensity to "truck, barter, and exchange" may be "one of those original principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given," or it may, "as seems more probable, ... be the necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech"... | |
 | Erich Fromm - 1990 - 388 ページ
...view no such extensive utility; the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another. Whether this propensity be one of those original principles...and speech, it belongs not to our present subject to enquire. // is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals, which seem to know neither... | |
 | Thorstein Veblen - 542 ページ
...no such extensive utility, — the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another. Whether this propensity be one of those original principles...further account can be given, or whether, as seems more ^robable, it be the necessary consequence of the faculties of •>n and speech, it belongs not to our... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1991 - 302 ページ
...— to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another", and to regard this propensity as either "one of those original principles in human nature of which no further account can be given", or as "the necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech" — is a logical lapse that has... | |
 | Rob Beamish - 1992 - 218 ページ
...alters Smith's position. Smith wrote, "[wjhether this propensity be one of those original principles of human nature, of which no further account can be given;...and speech, it belongs not to our present subject to enquire." The Wealth of Nations, p. 25. By using the term fortuitous, Marx essentially sidestepped... | |
 | Thorstein Veblen - 1993 - 438 ページ
...no such extensive utility — the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another. Whether this propensity be one of those original principles...it belongs not to our present subject to inquire." Wealth of Nations, Book I, ch. ii. 9. Wealth of Nations, Book I, chs. v-vii. 10. Wealth of Nations,... | |
 | Peter Minowitz - 1993 - 376 ページ
...Nations, Smith puts aside the question of whether "the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange" is "one of those original principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given." But he briefly indicates an answer: it "seems more probable" that this disposition is "the necessary... | |
 | Deirdre N. McCloskey - 1994 - 468 ページ
...division of labor is the "consequence of a certain propensity ... to truck, barter, and exchange . . . [W]hether this propensity be one of those original...consequence of the faculties of reason and speech" he could not pause to consider (1776 [1981], I, ii, p. 25, my italics). The Wealth of Nations does... | |
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Whether this propensity be one of those original principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given; or whether, as seems more probable, it be the necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to our present... 
