 | Alastair Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton, Harold Coffin Syrett - 1966 - 656 страници
...capital employed in manufactures, but in proportion too to the quantity of productive labour which it employs, it adds a much greater value to the annual...to the real wealth and revenue of its inhabitants" (Smith, Wealth of Nations, I, 362). 137. H is referring to the following section in The Wealth of Nations:... | |
 | Takashi Negishi - 1985 - 230 страници
...capital employed in manufactures, but in proportion too to the quantity of productive labour which it employs, it adds a much greater value to the annual...it is by far the most advantageous to the society. (Smith 1976, pp. 363-64) To argue that agriculture is more productive than manufacture because there... | |
 | E. A. Wrigley, Edward Anthony Wrigley - 1990 - 160 страници
...produce, the effect must be permanent. A greater proportion 40 The capital employed in agriculture . . . adds a much greater value to the annual produce of...it is by far the most advantageous to the society.' Ibid., p. 385. See also p. 194. 41 Ibid., bk n. ch. 5. 42 Ibid., pp. 395-6. of that part of the produce... | |
 | Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey - 1997 - 420 страници
...capital employed in manufactures; but in proportion, too, to the quantity of productive labour which it employs, it adds a much greater value to the annual...it is by far the most advantageous to the society." 2 * Again: "After agriculture, the capital employed in manufactures, puts into motion the greatest... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1982 - 582 страници
...motion a greater quantity of productive labour than that of the farmer' - leading to the conclusion that 'Of all the ways in which a capital can be employed,...it is by far the most advantageous to the society.' (WN , II.v.12; 463.) Smith advanced two additional propositions which seem to follow from the argument... | |
 | Robert I. Rotberg - 2000 - 369 страници
...capital employed in manufactures, but in proportion, too, to the quantity of productive labour which it employs, it adds a much greater value to the annual...be employed, it is by far the most advantageous to society." 7I The extent of the growth in industrial production was, in his view, geared to agricultural... | |
 | Michael Perelman - 2000 - 428 страници
...the arts the most beneficial to society" (Smith 1978, 522). He also insisted that agriculture "adds much greater value to the annual produce of the land...to the real wealth and revenue of its inhabitants" (1976, II.v.12, 364). He concluded, "Of all the ways in which a capital can be employed, it is by far... | |
 | David Ricardo - 2002 - 336 страници
...capital employed in manufactures, but in proportion, too, to the quantity of the productive labour which it employs it adds a much greater value to the annual...employed, it is by far the most advantageous to the society."-Book II. chap. vp 15. Does nature nothing for man in manufactures? Are the powers of wind... | |
 | David Ricardo - 2005 - 372 страници
...capital employed in manufactures, but in proportion, too, to the quantity of the productive labor which it employs it adds a much greater value to the annual produce of the land and labor of the country, to the real wealth and revenue of its inhabitants. Of all the ways in which a... | |
 | Michael D. Chan - 2006 - 249 страници
...equal capital employed in manufactures, but in proportion too to the quantity of productive labor which it employs, it adds a much greater value to the annual...it is by far the most advantageous to the society. In a similar vein, Jefferson wrote, "to the labor of the husbandman a vast addition is made by the... | |
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The capital employed in agriculture, therefore, not only puts into motion a greater quantity of productive labour than any equal capital employed in manufactures, but in proportion too to the quantity of productive labour which it employs, it adds a much... 
