| Francis Bowen - 1859 - 586 páginas
...of the necessaries, conveniences, or amusements of life that can be obtained in exchange for them. Every man is rich or poor, according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy these things ; and the real value or price of all the commodities which he possesses, therefore, is... | |
| Francis Bowen - 1859 - 576 páginas
...of the necessaries, conveniences, or amusements of life that can be obtained in exchange for them. Every man is rich or poor, according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy these things ; and the real value or price of all the commodities which he possesses, therefore, is... | |
| Samuel Martin - 1863 - 352 páginas
...the race ? For what ends may men seek to possess and to employ it ? " Every man," it has been said, " is rich or poor according to the degree in which he...necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life . . . the far greater part of these he must derive from the labour of other people, and he must be... | |
| William Edward Hearn - 1863 - 500 páginas
...POVERTY. § 1. Adam Smith, in a passage to which I have already had occasion to refer, observes that every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, the conveniences, and the amusements of human life. In the preceding pages I have attempted to show... | |
| William Lucas Sargant - 1867 - 238 páginas
...is between value and opulence. Ricardo begins thus. " ' A man is rich or poor,' Say S Adam Smith, ' according to the degree in which he can afford to...necessaries, conveniences, and amusements, of human life.' " Value, then, essentially differs from riches, for value depends, not on abundance, but on the difficulty... | |
| Adam Smith - 1869 - 576 páginas
...OP THE REAL AND NOMINAL PllICE OF COMMODITIES, OR OF THEIR PRICE IN LABOUR AND THEIR PRICE IN MONEY. EVERY man is rich or poor according to the degree...necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life. But after the division of labour has once thoroughly taken place, it is but a very small part of these... | |
| 1869 - 1274 páginas
...every pound produced should cost a guinea. PBICE OF COMMODITIES. — Under this head Smith says : " Every man is rich or poor, according to the degree in which ho can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life." And he adds :... | |
| Henry Dunning Macleod - 1872 - 730 páginas
...education, with at least the ordinary profits of an equally valuable capital." He also says: — "A man is rich or poor, according to the degree in which...necessaries, conveniences and amusements of human life." Surely, therefore, those men who can produce those sciences, knowledge, and amusements, which Smith... | |
| Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 páginas
...Of the real and nominal Price of Commodities, or of their Price in Labour, and their Price in Money. EVERY man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniencies, and amusements of human life. But after the division of labour has once thoroughly taken... | |
| Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1876 - 580 páginas
...the race ? For what ends may men seek to possess and to employ it ? " Every man," it has been said, " is rich or poor according to the degree in which he...necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life . . . the far greater part of these he must derive from the labour of other people, and he must be... | |
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