 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 496 страници
...singers, opera dancers, &c. The labour of the meanest of these has a certain value, regulated by the very same principles which regulate that of every...work of all of them perishes in the very instant of the production."* I thought it of importance to state this fully, because in consequence of the constant... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1857 - 510 страници
...this goodly company have their value, but they produce nothing which can be stocked and stored up, nothing which could afterwards purchase or procure...of labour. Like the declamation of the actor, the language of the orator, or the tune of the musician, the work of all of them perishes in the very instant... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 576 страници
...opera-singers, opera-dancers, &C.1 The labour of the meanest of those hns a certain value, regulated by the very same principles which regulate that of every...noblest and most useful, produces nothing which could I afterwards purchase or procure an equal quantity of labour. Like the declamation of the actor, the... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1870 - 376 страници
...opera-singers, opera-dancers, &c. The labour of the meanest of these has a certain value, regulated by the very same principles which regulate that of every...perishes in the very instant of its production.'* These statements are plausible ; still, however, it is not difficult to show the fallacy of the distinction... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - 1872 - 730 страници
...singers, opera dancers, <fec. The labour of the meanest of these has a certain value, regulated by the very same principles which regulate that of every...them perishes in the very instant of its production." Now in reference to what Smith says about the protection, security, and defence of the commonwealth... | |
 | Van Buren Denslow - 1880 - 412 страници
...noblest and most useful produces nothing which could afterward purchase an equal quantity of labor. Like the declamation of the actor, the harangue of...them perishes in the very instant of its production." This assumption that labor, to be productive of wealth must result in the creation of some physical... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1884 - 604 страници
...opera-singers, operadancers, &c. The labour of the meanest of these has a certain value, regulated by the very same principles which regulate that of every...actor, the harangue of the orator, or the tune of tue musician, the work of all of them perishes in the very instant of its production. Both productive... | |
 | Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1887 - 182 страници
...opera singers, and opera dancers, all stand on the same footing, and belong to the second category. Like the declamation of the actor, the harangue of the orator, or the tune of the musician, he thinks that the work of all of them perishes in the very instant of its production ; forgetting... | |
 | Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1887 - 196 страници
...the declamation of the actor, the harangue of the orator, or the tune of the musician, he thinks that the work of all of them perishes in the very instant of its production ; forgetting that to deny that any labour is productive which does not give its result in a material... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1888 - 476 страници
...certain value regulated by the very same principles which regulate that of every other sort of labor: and that of the noblest and most useful produces nothing...afterwards purchase or procure an equal quantity of labor." This passage well expresses the popular idea regarding productive labor, yet it is very short-sighted... | |
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Like the declamation of the actor, the harangue of the orator, or the tune of the musician, the work of all of them perishes in the very instant of its production. 
