 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 498 páginas
...with respect to labor. He opens the ' Wealth of Nations ' with the statement that " The annual labor of every nation is the fund which originally supplies...conveniences of life which it annually consumes." One school of writers, the Mercantilists, had held that the main thing in the advancement of the wealth... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - 1897 - 530 páginas
...agriculture are the fund which affords the annual net 'product, he asserts that " the annual labor of every nation is the fund which originally supplies...conveniences of life which it annually consumes." We are now inclined to identify this productive fund with the whole labor of the nation. But Adam Smith... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1900 - 554 páginas
...I do not know that much attention has been paid to it. The sentence is this. He says: " The actual labour of every nation is the fund which originally...the necessaries and conveniences of life which it actually consumes, and which consists always either in the immediate produce of that labour or in what... | |
 | H. J. Ogden - 1901 - 358 páginas
...extracts, because he will find, as he proceeds, that I base some of my calculations on this thesis : — " The annual labour of every nation is the fund which...is purchased with that produce from other nations. * * * " Whatever be the actual state of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which labour is applied... | |
 | H. J. Ogden - 1901 - 362 páginas
...extracts, because he will find, as he proceeds, that I base some of my calculationson this thesis : — "The annual labour of every nation is the fund which...always either in the Immediate produce of that labour, orín what is purchased with that produce from other nations. * * * " Whatever be the actual state... | |
 | W. Tcherkesoff - 1902 - 124 páginas
...whole epoch in the science and is cited by everybody, commences as follows: : 1. "The annual labor of. every nation is the fund which originally supplies...consist always either in the immediate produce of that labor, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations" ("Wealth of Nations," p. 1). 2.... | |
 | 1903 - 760 páginas
...first sentence of the Wealth of Nations has often been criticised, but the meaning is plain enough. " The annual labour of every nation is the fund which...with all the necessaries and conveniences of life." Then again take the sentence : — " Labour was the first price, the original purchase money, that... | |
 | 1903 - 702 páginas
...first sentence of the Wealth of Nations has often been criticised, but the meaning is plain enough. " The annual labour of every nation is the fund which...with all the necessaries and conveniences of life." Then again take the sentence : — " Labour was the first price, the original purchase money, that... | |
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The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with... 
