An analysis of Adam Smiths' Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, repr., with additions, from the 3rd ed. of J. Joyce's abridgement, revised and ed. by W.P. Emerton, Volume 21880 |
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... employed . The inhabitants of the country purchase of the town a greater quantity of manufactured goods , with the produce of a smaller quantity of labour , than they must have employed had they prepared them themselves . The town ...
... employed . The inhabitants of the country purchase of the town a greater quantity of manufactured goods , with the produce of a smaller quantity of labour , than they must have employed had they prepared them themselves . The town ...
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... employ their capitals rather in the cultivation of land than either in manufactures or in foreign trade . The capital employed in land is more under the command of its owner , and is less liable to accidents , than that of the trader ...
... employ their capitals rather in the cultivation of land than either in manufactures or in foreign trade . The capital employed in land is more under the command of its owner , and is less liable to accidents , than that of the trader ...
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... employed in more useful purposes , p . 385 . According to the NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS , the greater part of the capital of every growing society is , first , directed to agriculture , then to manufactures , and last of all to foreign ...
... employed in more useful purposes , p . 385 . According to the NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS , the greater part of the capital of every growing society is , first , directed to agriculture , then to manufactures , and last of all to foreign ...
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... employed in defending his own territories . When the establishment of law affords him leisure , he often wants inclination , and almost always abilities suitable for the purpose . To improve land with profit requires an exact attention ...
... employed in defending his own territories . When the establishment of law affords him leisure , he often wants inclination , and almost always abilities suitable for the purpose . To improve land with profit requires an exact attention ...
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... employed as workmen . Not being able to acquire property , they can have no interest but to eat as much and labour as little as possible . Experience demon- strates that the work done by slaves is the dearest of any . Sugar and tobacco ...
... employed as workmen . Not being able to acquire property , they can have no interest but to eat as much and labour as little as possible . Experience demon- strates that the work done by slaves is the dearest of any . Sugar and tobacco ...
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Adam Smith advantage ÆNEID agriculture America ancient artificers balance of trade bank money Bonamy Price bounty Britain capital cent Church civilised clergy coin College colony trade commerce commodities consumer consumption corn Crown 8vo cultivation debt defrayed duties East India empire employed employment England English equal established Europe expense exportation factures favour foreign trade former France fund gold and silver greater Hertford College importation imposed improvement increase industry interest JAMES THORNTON labour land-tax landlord levied Lord Lord Clive maintain manu manufactures ment mercantile merchants monopoly natural necessary occasion Oxford paid Political Economy Portugal profit prohibition proportion proprietors quantity QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES raise regulated render rent of land restraints revenue Rogers's note Roman ROMAN LAW rude produce seignorage society sovereign Spain Specimen standing army subsistence tenant THOMAS CLAYTON tion Translation Wealth of Nations whole