 | Harry Earl Montgomery - 1911 - 460 páginas
...understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. . . . All other things I call luxuries." Professor Ely's conception is that "luxuries are things which... | |
 | Lewis Henry Haney - 1911 - 598 páginas
...V, Chap. II, art. iii (Cannan's ed., p. 348). 4 Bk. I, Chap. VIII (Cannan's ed., p. 71, et passim). the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without." 1 While he argued that in Great Britain wages were considerably above the subsistence level, yet he... | |
 | Henry Higgs - 1917 - 170 páginas
...luxuries become necessaries, which " the custom of the country," in the language of Adam Smith,1 " renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived,... | |
 | Thomas Nixon Carver - 1919 - 608 páginas
...understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived,... | |
 | Thomas Nixon Carver - 1921 - 792 páginas
...understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it Indecent for...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived,... | |
 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - 1923 - 352 páginas
...of necessaries determines the minium rate of wages : by ' necessaries ' being understood ' whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without'.2 The ' standard of comfort ' theory begins to emerge. The So also does the wages-fund theory.... | |
 | 1974 - 260 páginas
...understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without', The Wealth of Nations, Book 5, Chapter 2, Part I, 1776. 4 B. Seebohm Rowntree, Poverty: A Study of... | |
 | United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare - 1976 - 200 páginas
...commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the century renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. By the 20th century, this view of poverty as a comparative state gained considerable support in the... | |
 | F. G. Pyatt, Graham Pyatt, Michael Ward - 1999 - 252 páginas
...does being poor exactly mean? Adam Smith (1776) described poverty as a lack of those necessities that "the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without". More than 200 years later, in 1984, the European Council declared that "the poor shall be taken to... | |
 | 1999 - 268 páginas
...understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support oflife, hut whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be withouf: Huishoudens gelden in deze traditie als arm, indien het inkomen onvoldoende is om de minimaal... | |
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By necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. 
