 | Ralph Paprzycki - Business & Economics - 2005 - 208 pages
...productive powers of labour, and the greater part of skill, dexterity, and judgement with which it is anywhere directed or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour. (Smith 1986: 109) Thus Adam Smith more than two hundred years ago, when he identified the division... | |
 | Guang-Zhen Sun - Business & Economics - 2005 - 312 pages
...powers of labor, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labor. The effects of the division of labor, in the general business of society, will be more easily... | |
 | Jerry Evensky - Business & Economics - 2005 - 364 pages
...powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labor. (WN, 13) This principle of the division of labor is familiar to any introductory economics student.... | |
 | Michael Veseth - Political Science - 2005 - 286 pages
...of labour, and the greatest part of the skill, dexterity, and judgement with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.4 Adam Smith begins The Wealth of Nations with an incredibly broad generalization about the... | |
 | Ning Wang - Fish trade - 2005 - 218 pages
...powers of labor, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labor" (1976, p. 7). Adam Smith's singular emphasis on the division of labor in economic growth may... | |
 | James W. Harrington, P. W. Daniels - Business & Economics - 2006 - 336 pages
...productive powers of labor, and the greatest part of the skill, dexterity, and judgement with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labor (Smith [1776] 1977, 109). Smith argued that the effects of the division of labor are more easily... | |
 | David Clark - Business & Economics - 2006 - 757 pages
...powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity and judgement with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour' (Smith, 1776, vol. 1, p. 7). The fundamental driver of the accumulation process is the pursuit of profit:... | |
 | Howard Richards, Joanna Swanger - Political Science - 2006 - 456 pages
...powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour." Smith, Wealth of Nations, 3. 1n Smith's view, the colonial relationship was best suited to take advantage... | |
 | Tom Siegfried - Science - 2006 - 272 pages
...powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour," Smith pronounced at the beginning of Chapter I.4 Modern caricatures of Wealth of Nations do not do... | |
 | David Warsh - Business & Economics - 2006 - 456 pages
...powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour." On this point — that specialization is the key to wealth — Smith could not have been clearer (or... | |
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THE greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour. 
